2024 Archives

It's supported by more than half the Democrats in the Senate, along with independents Bernie Sanders and Angus King; not a single Republican had the courage or patriotism to sign onto it…. Republicans this week asked the Supreme Court to throw 40,000 Arizona voters off the voting rolls. This is not the sort of case the Framers of the Constitution meant for the Court to be deciding; for the past few decades, since rightwingers took over the Court, it's been regularly overstepping its charter. Similarly, Donald Trump's criminal attempt to overthrow our government on January 6th is now back before Judge Tanya Chutkan's court, although whatever decision she renders will instantly be appealed by Trump's lawyers back to his friends on the Supreme Court. Tragically, justice will be a long time coming. And now Senator Chuck Schumer and Congress want to do something about it. When the six corrupt and well-bribed Republicans on the US Supreme Court gave Donald Trump immunity from prosecution for crimes he committed while president, they not only "broke" the law but defied the Constitution itself. This offense to our republic's rule of law demands reversal, and Congress, at the moment, is the only venue where that can be done.

How GOP Policies are Forcing Women into Submission and Putting Lives at Risk Josh and Amanda Zurawski thought they had the American Dream going for them; they'd gotten married a year earlier and bought a beautiful Austin, Texas home with views of a lake and golf course. And Amanda was pregnant; they were looking forward to their first child. And then they ran afoul of the tradwife obsession that motivates the Texas Republican Party.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz are leaving Reagan's neoliberalism in the dust as they double down on President Biden's incredibly successful Keynesian economics strategy to rebuild the middle class and invigorate the economy. — Are insults all Republicans have left? Is that why they can't they just let people be who they are and debate policy? — In what has to be the most bizarre attack on Harris yet, Trump says that if she's elected a truly terrible thing will happen: In his own words, "everybody will get healthcare!" — Speaking of idiocy, JD Vance says Amazon gave money to Black people to burn down big retail stores to increase Amazon's profits. It doesn't get weirder — or more racist — than that. — Geeky Science! "We should have better answers by now": climate scientists are baffled by the unexpected explosion of global heating. — Wisdom School Alert! Are You In the "Having Mode" or the "Being Mode?" — Hunter in a Farmer's World Alert! Why It's Important to Develop "Boredom Response Techniques"

With the election of 1980, Americans — most unknowingly — chose great wealth over democracy, oligarchy over a middle class, billionaires over working people. Twenty-two years ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote for The New York Times Magazine about the era in which he and I both grew up, when the top income tax rate on the morbidly rich ran between 74 and 90 percent... Back then most business people avoided politics, preferring to stick to running their companies; in large part this was because when the rich seized political control of America in the Roaring 20s they crashed the economy so bad they were shamed into staying out of the political arena.