Washington’s MAGA government is shoveling massive giveaways of public money to corporate elites. Worse, though, are its takeaways of people’s power to battle the abuse of those same plutocratic corporations. Consider just three recent examples:...
Sometimes, cosmic oddities come together in comic ways. For example, Google positions the biography of right-wing Texas governor Greg Abbott right under the one for yesteryear’s slapstick comedians, Abbott and Costello....
It’s been my honor to know a few real heroes – people who’ve selflessly dared to fight greed and oppression to advance the common good. Diane Wilson, for example. For forty years, this fiery, fourth-generation...
Here’s a progressive idea I picked up from the unlikeliest of sources: Corporate CEOs! For decades, these chieftains of our economic order have been steadily implementing a very visionary process for establishing corporate wage levels....
May we take a minute to talk about your death? And mine, too. I certainly don’t want to rush either one, but there is a matter we should all consider ahead of the “event.” Namely,...
Here they come again! Another far-right-wing mob, spurred on by Trump, is storming our US Capitol! Only, these are not uncouth MAGA marauders wearing buffalo horns, breaking in, and attacking Capital police....
All across the country, nonprofit hospital chains are literally upping their game. These corporate entities receive special tax exemptions because they provide some free and reduced-cost medical services to poor families....
My life goals have never included making a lot of money… and I’ve certainly succeeded in that regard. Yet, I do consider myself rich. Not like the Wall Street “richie-rich,” but in the modest sense...
Nearly all Americans agree that Congress has become a sad joke – a blight of irritating gnats. How exciting, then, that a consultant to top Republican lawmakers has figured out how to make Congress better....
Some days I don’t know whether to rage in fury, weep quietly, or just throw up. This, however, is definitely a throw-up day. That’s because our US Secretary of State (a once-honorable position that advocated...