Years ago, when America was mired in the horror of the Vietnam war, Pete Seeger wrote a lament about the...
CGB stands for the Cult of Goofy Billionaires, and they are way, way, waaay goofier than you might imagine. I’m...
“Mingy” is a useful word. It merges stingy with mean, pretty well summing up the prevailing ethic of today’s corporate...
Congress keeps churning out laws that the great majority of us have explicitly, consistently, and loudly said we do not...
“Stand back,” shout Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires, “geniuses at work!” They refer to themselves, of course, demanding that public officials,...
Washington’s Democratic Party establishment keeps demanding that progressive members tone down their criticism of billionaire oligarchs and corporate autocrats. Why?...
Years ago, Ray Charles sang: “Them that’s got is them that gets, and I ain’t got nothin’ yet.” Millions of...
There are towns in Texas named New Deal, Fair Play, Progresso, Utopia, — and even Buck Naked! But what you...
Even in this ugly era of political divisiveness under “King Donald,” some things remain bigger than partisan politics. For example,...
There’s a clique of plutocratic, high-tech billionaires who think they’re entitled to turn America’s farmlands and rural communities into their...