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The beginning of the end of regulation
Today the Supreme Court — again, with the 6 Republican appointees on one side and the 3 Democratic appointees on the other — limited the Environmenta…
4 years, 3 months ago
Trumpism and the myth of the "free market"
The January 6 committee continues to do an excellent job exposing Donald Trump’s attempted coup. But, as I’ve noted, the question remains: why have s…
4 years, 3 months ago
Cassidy Hutchinson's chilling testimony
After today’s explosive testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson — who served as chief assistant to Mark Meadows and was literally and figuratively in the mid…
4 years, 3 months ago
The roots of Trumpism (Part 1)
Donald Trump’s legacy — a proto-fascist movement we might call Trumpism — includes a Supreme Court rapidly taking America backwards, state legislatur…
4 years, 3 months ago
When I was Baby Jesus
When I was in kindergarten in 1951, I was the shortest kid in all of Lewisboro Elementary School, Public School #1. Not surprisingly, perhaps, I was …
4 years, 3 months ago
The rogue court and the fight ahead
Friends,
Like many of you, I found it a difficult weekend. As Friday’s decision by the six Republican nominees on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.…
4 years, 3 months ago
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…
4 years, 3 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…
4 years, 3 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…
4 years, 3 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 …
4 years, 3 months ago