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Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (wearing a $900,000 watch ) announced yesterday morning that across their over-seven-billion-user-strong social media...
As with many problems in American life, it largely comes down to two factors: the legacy of white supremacy and corporate profits.
In fascist states, corporations and wealthy individuals fall all over themselves to gain the favor of the fascist strongman leader or they lose out...
The lines between corporate power, billionaire interests, government authority, public “knowledge,” and foreign influence have not just...
Because the desire of right-wing billionaires not to pay taxes have prevailed ever since Truman first proposed single-payer healthcare, Americans...
Enough is enough. Let your members of Congress know it’s beyond time to fix the Court and Medicare, so scams like Medicare Advantage can no longer...
Trump’s goal will be to avoid Yoon’s outcome and instead—like Putin and Orbán did in Russia and Hungary—ensure there won’t be any meaningful...
As he shatters the neoliberal tariff consensus, Democrats should rise to the occasion and argue for rational, targeted, and gradual tariffs, taking...
We all must support (and share with our friends) those outlets where we find useful news and information. If we fail to do so, America’s media...
Without the right-wing media juggernaut, Donald Trump probably wouldn’t be president next year and wouldn’t have won in 2016. That said, the...
The billionaires have won. They have successfully killed the American Dream. And now we have to fight back.
Many of America’s rightwing billionaires don’t want you to vote. Ask yourself this simple question: why?
Tuesday night, in a brilliant speech before 75,000-plus people on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., from which Trump sent a murderous mob against...
From Jeff Bezos to Elon Musk, America's oligarchs are using media control to shape politics, grow profits, and destroy the prospect of a better...
Increasingly, MAGA Republicans associated with Trump are convinced he is going to lose the election. But they have a backup plan to put him in the...
The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an...
A frightening review of what Donald Trump has already said he will do if he gets back into the White House may be exactly what you need to hear...
The pieces are already being put into place, which is giving me a terrible sense of déjà vu.
Jill Stein doesn’t give, as the old saying goes, a flying f*ck about democracy. Instead, she’s all about how famous she can become and how much...
Running for president and keeping an iron grip on the once-noble Green Party has become Stein’s singular mission. And she’s killing the Party — and...
This election may be America’s last stand against this country becoming, like Hungary and Russia, a full-on oligarchy run of, by, and for a small,...
The media is shocked, shocked, I tell you , that Jack Smith has the goods on Trump, and, holy cow, we had a traitor in the White House! And he...
The GOP hold on most of American radio seems pretty unshakable, but Democrats must get into the talk-radio game before ever more damage is done.
Republicans don’t want women to vote. They now think they may have a strategy that could prevent them from doing so. House Speaker Mike Johnson and...
A listener called in to my program recently and asked, “Is Donald Trump the Antichrist and, if so, will he reveal himself at the debate?” I passed...
Will it all be revealed in tonight's debate?
Get ready. Donald Trump has made good use of the propaganda technique known as the Big Lie 1.0, famously claiming that the 2020 “election was...
If we don’t take on bullies — particularly fascist bullies — they keep going further and further until either they win or you fight back and defeat...
This week saw a dramatic turn in our nation’s desperate efforts to clean up the increasingly poisonous online sewers that we call social media....
Republicans on the Supreme Court, 5 of the 6 appointed by presidents who lost the national vote, are the main reason why Americans can’t have nice...
Republicans have come to genuinely believe that they cannot retain political power without resorting to morally criminal, nakedly unethical voter...
When President Biden was running for re-election, he repeatedly talked about the dangers Trump and his neofascist buddies in the billionaire class...
When Republicans say that your grandmother stayed with your grandfather and should be your role model, there's a lot they are leaving out.
This election provides the greatest contrast in philosophy since 1980 and will determine the fate and future of the American Dream. Will it...
Republicans have declared war on the middle class people trying to plan ahead for their Golden Years.
Get ready: Massive pools of dark right-wing money are soon going to clobber us. Will Democracy survive this onslaught by the morbidly rich?...
All across America families are in mourning: Their parents and grandparents, particularly the men in their lives, have been stolen from them by the...
The Republican grift has already reversed over 50 years of progress, and now Trump and Vance want to double down.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Tuesday blasted J.D. Vance for being a “grifter,” because Vance claimed he was some sort of a hillbilly who grew...
At a campaign stop in Ohio on Monday, J.D. Vance said that Kamala Harris shouldn’t lead America because she isn’t “grateful for it.” Vance told his...
Marjorie Taylor Greene told Republicans at the RNC this week that Donald Trump “will make us wealthy.” What’s she really saying? And who is...
Will the media jump on the bandwagon and condemn Democrats and Biden for normal campaign rhetoric while continuing to normalize Trump's violent past?