History In the Balance
The moment of truth has come for the so-called moderate Republicans in the US Senate, specifically Corker, Flake, Collins, Murkowski, and,...
Tagged: Politics
Prelude To The Final Putsch?
Even for the standards of this Trumpian era, this has been a wild week. Remarkably, the old white men in the...
Legal, But Impossible – GOP's New Authoritarian Strategy
Under Leonid Brezhnev in the early 1970s, the Soviet Union introduced what was known as the “diploma tax”, which forced those...
Trump Will Take Us All Into The Abyss
Unlike Richard Nixon, Donald Trump will not fly off into the sunset. And, with the complicity of the corrupt, unaccountable, and...
Replaying Clarence Thomas, With A Twist
It looks like we are going to have a replay of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, 27 years on. The White...
Thoughts On The Manafort Plea Deal
In the end, Paul Manafort held out as long as was reasonably possible. It made sense to at least see what...
New Goldman Sachs CEO Admits Culture Of Corruption Dominates Wall Street
Yesterday, I wrote how Andrew Ross Sorkin had totally ignored Keynesian economics as a response to financial crises, a response that...
Refusing To Learn The Lessons Of History, Again and Again
Andrew Ross Sorkin has one of the most depressing articles in the NY Times today, linking the Great Recession to the...
Is The American Experiment Ending?
American democracy was already having serious difficulties before Donald Trump became President. But the revelations in this anonymous op-ed piece that...
Papers, Please!
The Jeff Session’s war on immigrants, illegal or legal, seems to ramping up, making the fears of a national deportation force...