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The extreme right on the Supreme Court and the Big Liars in the GOP
My informal weekly coffee with Heather Lofthouse (Executive Director of Inequality Media Civic Action, and my former student), discussing the past we…
3 years, 6 months ago
The shame of the Supreme Court
If there’s any doubt about the extremism of the Supreme Court’s six Republican appointees, it was on full display today with their opinion in Dobbs v…
3 years, 6 months ago
Who should benefit from fighting inflation? Average working people or bond traders?
Yesterday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, said outright that the Fed’s higher interest rates won’t lower th…
3 years, 6 months ago
Office Hours: Breaching the wall between church and state?
Yesterday, the Supreme Court knocked down part of the wall between church and state with a ruling that’s likely to force taxpayers to fund religious …
3 years, 6 months ago
The real drama behind today's fourth hearing
Today’s fourth hearing focused on how Trump corruptly pressured state legislators and election officials to change election results — leaning on stat…
3 years, 6 months ago
How to end corporate welfare
Friends,
As Congress prepares for summer recess, average working Americans are facing increasingly hard economic times — including a likely recession …
3 years, 6 months ago
Why the January 6 committee is failing to slow Trump's attempted coup
We fool ourselves if we believe that the televised hearings of the January 6 committee are changing the direction of the Republican Party, or that th…
3 years, 6 months ago
Will Merrick Garland prosecute Trump? Is Ginni toast?
My informal weekly coffee with Heather Lofthouse (Executive Director of Inequality Media Civic Action, and my former student), discussing the past we…
3 years, 6 months ago
How much I owe Alice Camp
Today marks the end of the school year for many public schools. Every year about this time I think of Alice Camp.
I arrived in her third-grade classr…
3 years, 6 months ago
The mysterious John Eastman connection
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol held its third public hearing today — focused on Trump's efforts to pr…
3 years, 6 months ago