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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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 2 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 …
4 years, 2 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…
4 years, 2 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…
4 years, 2 months ago
How to bask in the political limelight? Be Manchinema
TONIGHT I’m talking with Stephanie Ruhle, on MSNBC’s 11th Hour, about the biggest difference between Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema — the so-called “…
4 years, 2 months ago
Inflation: argggghhhhhhh!
My informal weekly coffee with Heather Lofthouse (Executive Director of Inequality Media Civic Action and my former student), discussing the past wee…
4 years, 2 months ago
I've been jilted too many times by Manchin to fall for him again
Has Joe Manchin really, finally seen the light? Word is that President (sorry) Senator Manchin has agreed to roughly $433 billion in new spending, mu…
4 years, 2 months ago
What's the biggest Trump Oxymoron of all?
Today, Donald Trump returns to Washington — his first visit since leaving in disgrace after January 6 — to deliver the keynote address for the Americ…
4 years, 2 months ago