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Virginia Turns Toward Trump Jun. 03, 2024
Donald Trump became president by flipping states no Republican nominee had won in nearly 20 years. T... Read More
Hey, Democrats: Find the Party's Future in Its Populist Past May. 01, 2024
A farmer friend of mine once bemoaned the fact that the Democrat we'd both supported for president, ... Read More
What? Progress in Mississippi? Seriously? May. 17, 2023
There's a common political refrain among Texas progressives: "Thank God for Mississippi." Our own st... Read More
What If Democrats Decided to Campaign as Real Democrats? Apr. 19, 2023
Way to go, Wisconsin! In a momentous progressive win, voters there elected County Judge Janet Protas... Read More
Who Taught George Santos to Be Such a Self-Serving Fraud? Feb. 08, 2023
People are baffled by the surreal saga of George Santos, the bizarre Republican congress critter who... Read More
Trump Was Always the Result of the Conservative Populist Coalition, Not the Cause Nov. 22, 2022
NEW ALEXANDRIA, Pennsylvania — Ever since former President Donald Trump lost to President Joe ... Read More
Lessons from the Midterm Elections Nov. 16, 2022
What hit the Republican Party on Election Day was... well, the Republican Party. Blow No. 1, of cour... Read More
A Tear-Jerker About the Housing Saga of Some Rich Jerks Aug. 24, 2022
Let's all gather 'round the campfire, buckaroos, and let Ol' Cactus Jim here tell you about some of ... Read More
Finding Reasons for Progressive Optimism Aug. 17, 2022
From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, tr... Read More
Why Should Work Be Life-Sucking? Aug. 10, 2022
"Work your fingers to the bone — whadda ya get? Boney Fingers." This 1960s folk song mocking t... Read More
The Conservative Populist Coalition Has Grown in Pennsylvania. What That Means Going Forward Is Important May. 24, 2022
FANNETTSBURG, Pennsylvania — The first time I accidentally stumbled onto the cracked Back Road... Read More
Corporations Win Olympic Gold in "Downhill Ethical Backflip" Feb. 16, 2022
By far the top team performance in this year's Winter Olympics in Beijing has been corporate America... Read More
Is the Rift Between the Public and the C-Suites Permanent? Dec. 07, 2021
HANNIBAL, Missouri — During a visit here in 1882, Mark Twain wrote to his wife Olivia of the r... Read More
Trump Didn't Form a Populist Coalition; He Was the Result of One Apr. 20, 2021
PITTSBURGH — They're still there, planted in front of stately homes in wealthy suburban neighb... Read More
The First Step in Fixing our Toxic Politics Feb. 26, 2021
If we're ever going to surmount this truly toxic period in our politics, each warring faction must r... Read More
The Wealth Monopoly Nov. 13, 2019
I should start this homily on inequality by distinguishing income from wealth. Income is your annual... Read More
The Young, the Restless and Bernie Oct. 22, 2019
A New York Times opinion column acquaints humanity with the injustice of forbidding the vote to 16- ... Read More
Why Would We Trust Plutocrats to Save Us From Plutocracy? Sep. 11, 2019
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote of being leery of a loud-talking huckster who visited his home: "The ... Read More
Trump to Working Class: 'Adios, Chumps' Jun. 12, 2019
Congratulations on that nice pay raise you got last year, a 7% hike — wow! Seven percent might... Read More
How to Arm Nature Against Corporate Profiteers Jun. 05, 2019
There's a hunters' nightmare in which a group of them flush some rabbits out of the brush, but rathe... Read More
