Our local newspapers are being merged, purged, shrunk, shut down, and looted by Wall Street profiteers – yet there’s good...
The rich are different from you and me. For one thing, they’re rich. Among the super-rich, though, there tends to...
Suddenly, “social distancing” is our new national etiquette abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior...
We might expect that corporate billionaires and Koch-funded Republican right-wingers would be howl-at-the-moon opponents of a wealth tax, Medicare-for-All, and...
Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of...
Mega-investor Warren Buffett once held a big portfolio of daily and weekly newspapers, and he specialized in squeezing out competitors...
Many Americans can’t believe that political coups are part of our country’s history – but consider the Wall Street Putsch...
In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in...
For $3.5 Trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class healthcare system? Yet, while we spend the most of...
As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation:...