Bribery of a lawmaker used to be a straightforward retail transaction between the special interest briber and a specific bribee. But the Silicon Valley billionaires now invading rural America with hundreds of their exploitative AI...
The Democratic Party establishment is rolling out its arsenal of big funders and political consultants, trying to defeat… Democrats. Huh? Yes, led by Sen. Chuck “Don’t-Rock-the-Corporate-Boat” Schumer, the party’s Washington hierarchy has been working to...
To see how the game of “Rig the System” is played, consider the shameful corporate gaming of the horror of California wildfires that have been devouring lives and entire communities....
America’s present president is like those egos who feel entitled to carve their name into every park bench they sit on, apparently to “make their mark” and shout to the world, “I wuz here!”...
Here’s something we don’t get to say very often: “Way to go Mississippi!” This state has long been ranked dead last in important measurements like healthcare, workers’ wages, and rural opportunities. In recent years, though,...
In 1988, I was one of only two white elected Democratic officials in all of America to endorse Jesse Jackson to be our party’s nominee for President. (The other was Bernie Sanders, then the mayor...
How are monopolistic corporations able to gain their economic dominance? They get politicians to give it to them. Consider the old robber barons. They weren’t brilliant investors or managers, they were ruthless exploiters of government...
Except for Zorro and Batman, people who put on masks to hide their identity when going to work are rarely up to any good. And as Americans learned decades ago when Ku Klux Klanners covered...
George Orwell spoke bluntly about the nefarious nature of advertising, calling it “the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.” Even Orwell, though, would’ve been astonished by the cacophony of swill bucket advertising currently...
Years ago, when I announced that I was leaving my job as editor of The Texas Observer to run for political office, I had to admit that into politics is the only downward career move...