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Will we get lost in the fog of Trump?
On Saturdays I have a cup of coffee with my colleague Heather Lofthouse, and we press record on my laptop so you can listen and chime in with any com…
3 years, 5 months ago
Follow the money! Small donors, big donors, and the midterms
Notably, the Inflation Reduction Act didn’t attract a single Republican vote in the Senate. (And at least one Democratic senator — Kyrsten Sinema — m…
3 years, 5 months ago
The worst memo in American history
Senator Joe Manchin has been Congress’s largest recipient of money from natural gas pipeline companies. He just reciprocated by gaining Senate suppor…
3 years, 5 months ago
Why Republican candidates can't escape Trump
Republican candidates for Senate, House and governorships in the upcoming midterms have been filling the airwaves today with baseless assertions that…
3 years, 5 months ago
America's 30-year recession
The Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. employers added 528,000 jobs in July, more than twice the number analysts had expected. And the rate o…
3 years, 5 months ago
What the hell did they learn at Harvard and Yale?
The original justification for elite higher education in the United States was to train the future leaders of American democracy. As Charles W. Eliot…
3 years, 5 months ago
Reasons to be less depressed?
Each Saturday I grab coffee with my colleague Heather Lofthouse, and we turn on my laptop mic so you can listen in and then provide your two cents in…
3 years, 5 months ago
Viktor Orban's eugenics and the GOP
Yesterday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addressed a crowd of thousands of American admirers in Dallas, Texas, at the Conservative Political …
3 years, 5 months ago
Kansas on my mind
Today, I want to talk about Kansas. Not about its corn as high as an elephant’s eye, nor about Dorothy and Toto trying to find their way home, but ab…
3 years, 5 months ago
How to stop rightwing media lies?
Defamation law may turn out to be America’s most important weapon against rightwing media lies.
On Friday, Infowars star Alex Jones’ parent media comp…
3 years, 5 months ago