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Capitalist Thugs
Uber’s then-chief executive Travis Kalanick texted fellow executives that “violence guarantees success” when clashes with taxi drivers broke out in 2…
4 years, 2 months ago
How to handle radical Republicans
This morning, I heard a commentator allude to “Mitch McConnell and other conservative senators.” Yesterday, a news report described the upcoming Alas…
4 years, 2 months ago
Should Biden run again?
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
The Democrats' disease
Friends,
Much of today’s Republican Party is treacherous and treasonous. So why are Democrats facing midterm elections that, according to most politic…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Republican Party: God, guns, forced birth, and strongmen
The link is tightening between America’s move toward theocracy and its slide toward autocracy.
It is important to understand these connections. The Su…
4 years, 2 months ago
Bezos's inflation idiocy
On Saturday, President Biden demanded on Twitter that Big Oil “bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying fo…
4 years, 3 months ago
How Democrats can still protect reproductive rights and the planet
I have no patience for all the handwringing by Democratic lawmakers in Washington over the Supreme Court’s regressive decisions on abortion and the c…
4 years, 3 months ago
On this July 4: The true meaning of patriotism
On this Fourth of July, it's worth pondering the true meaning of American patriotism.
It is not the meaning propounded by the “America First” crowd, …
4 years, 3 months ago
How do we tame a rogue Supreme Court?
My informal weekly coffee with Heather Lofthouse (Executive Director of Inequality Media Civic Action and my former student), discussing the past wee…
4 years, 3 months ago
The fate of the world
Friends,
I recently gave a lecture to students who were considering careers in public service, either in the public sector or in nonprofits. My lectur…
4 years, 3 months ago