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A Kakistocracy Takes Over Immigration Policy Dec. 04, 2024
Social media has been lighting up like fireworks, with myriad Trump voters exclaiming, "I didn't kno... Read More
Lilly Ledbetter Fought the Bastards -- And Won for All of Us Oct. 23, 2024
Forget the cartoonish "Great Man" version of American history. Nearly all social progress in our cou... Read More
Why Big Corporations Get Special Tax Breaks and You Don't Apr. 03, 2024
Free market ideologues fabricate some of the most preposterous yarns trying to justify their asserti... Read More
Astonishing: A Trailer Park Story With a Happy Ending! Nov. 15, 2023
For people who live in trailer parks, can anything be scarier than the sound of a roaring tornado? Y... Read More
A Supreme Court of Ethical Weasels Nov. 01, 2023
Wow! A couple of Supreme Court justices say they're now starting to think that maybe the court shoul... Read More
The Vital Role of End-to-End Encryption Oct. 24, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Our lives are intertwined with technology, and people must be able to communicate privately and secu... Read More
Let's Get Real: Billionaires Are Nuts! Sep. 27, 2023
When megalomanic, multibillionaire barons of industry suddenly announce that they are boundless geni... Read More
Racing Ahead in Your Career? Better Learn to Drag Your Feet. Sep. 21, 2023
What do you do when a new assignment comes around? If you immediately raise your hand, you're makin... Read More
Two Strikes and an Out: A Tale of Three Towns Sep. 20, 2023
Summer's lease has all too short a date, wrote Shakespeare, but he was wrong. Thank goodness it's go... Read More
How Things Work: Big Pharma Price Gouging Sep. 20, 2023
Corporate and governmental hucksters intentionally cloak their schemes in convoluted obfuscations so... Read More
A Deck Long Stacked Against Workers Is Finally Being Reshuffled Sep. 20, 2023
At the heart of the coordinated strike by United Auto Workers in Missouri, Ohio and Michigan that st... Read More
Labor Day Is Over, but Labor's Day Is Just Starting Sep. 13, 2023
Last week, I wrote about how Labor Day was created in the 1880s by rebellious workers, but I'm celeb... Read More
Yes, We Can Stop Drug Price Gouging! Here's How! Sep. 06, 2023
We human beings sometimes do some terrible things in pursuit of the almighty dollar. But to our cred... Read More
Vapid GOP 'Debate' Reveals Why Big-Money Politics Sucks Aug. 30, 2023
Peggy Lee struck a mournful chord with her hit song, "Is That All There Is?" It was about the vapidi... Read More
Consumer Alert: Your Phone Company Wants Into Your Bank Account! Aug. 23, 2023
Last week, T-Mobile (my cellular provider) pinged me with a rude message: Henceforth we will screw y... Read More
Corporations Are Evolving With the Times. Their Former Republican Allies Aren't. Jul. 12, 2023
Remember when Republicans would boldly stand up to any attempts to tell capitalists how to run their... Read More
When Virtue Signalers Become Virtue Flaunters Jun. 22, 2023
WASHINGTON — I always used to purchase Gillette shaving products. Gillette made products that ... Read More
Blame Price Controls for Fleeing Health Insurers Jun. 12, 2023
Thank Colorado's all-Democratic government for exacerbating a crisis in the health insurance market.... Read More
A Labor Strike in Hollywood? Why Should You Care? May. 31, 2023
Hollywood! Glamour! Riches! Yet, people who make a living writing movies, TV shows and streaming pro... 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
