Thom Hartmann

Billionaires don’t need a social safety net, so they’re using the right-wing spin machine to destroy it.

We could be looking at the end of the American experiment, and it has gone so far that it'll take a political revolution to set things right again.

I agree with Republicans - America has a deficit problem. It’s just not the same deficit problem Republicans are freaking out about.

Six years into his presidency, President Obama is now taking heat from a surprising place: congressional Democrats, who are lining up against his plan to force the Trans-Pacific-Partnership, or TPP, through congress without any debate whatsoever.

John Boehner may be a traitor.On Wednesday, the Speaker of the House confirmed that he had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to come speak to Congress, “on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.”

The line in right-wing media today is that last night’s State of the Union address is a sign that President Obama is moving to “the left.”

My fellow Americans…The state of our union is strong, but it could be so much stronger. Over the past year, we’ve continued to see how our politicians are bought off by Big Oil tycoons, Wall Street billionaires, and giant transnational corporations. And that’s the first challenge facing America right now.

If you haven’t already seen Selma, the new movie about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the fight for voting rights, do it tonight or tomorrow.

There was a time when corporations didn't have anything close to the power they do over politics in America.

We must keep carbon in the ground to save our planet.And fortunately, some countries, like Denmark, are already working on that.