How Conservatism Becomes Fascism
In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and...
The Scott Walker Story
Being fair to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is very difficult. It is like trying to be fair in analyzing the administration of Benito...
Drilling Our Way to a Balanced Budget
The American Petroleum Instititute bankrolled a series of television commercials in which a very emphatic blonde parades through a series of set ups that...
Here Comes the Election Year Propaganda
If you think you have been lied to before…you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. It’s an election year and therefore the amount and the degree...
Nationalize Natural Gas Production and Save America.
There is one simple and secure way to jump start the economy and sustain it over a decade. That one simple idea is to...
A Tariff Policy to Create Jobs
We need exports and imports. We need jobs. And we need more jobs than can be provided by exports. In other words,at a very...
How Fred Upton and Whirlpool Devastated Arkansas and Michigan.
Large corporations are often so huge that it is difficult to get one’s head around their size and their influence. General Electric, for example,...
OCCUPY AMERICA!
The last big show of Populist sentiment in this country was when the people of Wisconsin stood up against an oppressive Governor and a...
The Economics of Robert Reich.
Many short men are taller than Robert Reich. But as they said about Ari Onassis (who wasn’t that short, Ms. Onassis was just a...
Jobs and the Current American Economic Disaster
Since the Fall of 2008, the U.S. economy a dynamic enterprise of about $15 trillion dollars, as measured in employment, has fallen by about...
To Find a Job, Fire a Republican
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Remember the goal: 220-60-1 for 2012. Two-hundred and twenty Democratic House Members, Sixty solid Liberal Democratic Senators and a Democratic President. This is the...
Southerners Are Being Taken for a Ride
The Republicans, and the Tea Party founders, the Koch Family and about 30 other millionaire donors are taking the South for a ride.People...
Why Regulations Are Important
Rusty Billingsley was an ironworker who loved horses and loved his job. He was employed at the massive Las Vegas City Center project, a...
Class Warfare…The Battle to Destroy the Middle Class
A dentist from Naperville, Illinois called a talk show in Chicago.“I’ve invested $400,000 in starting a dental practice and the government won’t let...
Forward…to the New Clinton Era
It is time to push and push hard for Democratic reforms of government. We can return to an era when jobs were prolific and...