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The Billionaire Coup is Almost Complete and No One Stopped It — Can We Return to Democracy?

How America’s ultra-rich dismantled democracy, one Supreme Court ruling at a time. By Thom Hartman

Trump the Merciless Rules

Donald Trump jumped back into action Jan. 20 with a flurry of lies, executive orders and presidential pardons designed to show he was back, and badder than ever. He also violated his “solemn” …

Welcome to the Grifters Ball

Legalized bribery is still bribery — and there is no other way to describe the celebration that marks the second presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. With the menacing manner of a mob …
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Editorial

Don’t Get Distracted By Chaos

"Republicans in Congress began to devise a way to pay for renewal of tax cuts for billionaires under special rules that allow them to get the budget through the Senate with a simple majority. But the reconciled budget cannot increase the national debt. " - JMC

A Coup Attempt Against American Taxpayers

By Karen Dolan - Trump’s attempt to freeze federal funds for government services was an effort to steal our tax dollars to enrich billionaires. And he’ll try again.

Climate Crisis Lowers U.S. Home Values

By Frank Lingo -- In case we thought the climate crisis wasn’t going to affect our personal lives, here’s a news flash. No one wants to learn their home’s value is dropping but First Street …

Trump 2.0: The Vulnerable Are In the Crosshairs

Immigration groups have been warning us for months. Things were going to be different during a second Trump administration. They painted a picture of a nation at war, one in which the military …

Beyond 1.5°C threshold: Deepeningthe climate crisis

The global temperature datasets from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), NASA and the Met Office have revealed a shocking fact that the global average temperature exceeded 1.5° Celsius …

Why I Remain Hopeful About America

So many people I know — including, I suspect, many of you — are despairing over Donald Trump’s second regime, which started Jan. 20. I share your fears about what’s to come. Yet I …

Dispatches

‘REPUBLICANS ARE GEARING UP FOR CLASS WAR,’ DEMOCRAT WARNS, AS R’S PUSH FOR HUGE MEDICAID CUTS. Policy analysts and Democratic lawmakers raised alarm over the weekend at a leaked document …
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Based on Merit Again?

President Donald Trump issued an executive order gutting DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs in the federal government. Employees in DEI offices were placed on paid administrative leave …

Billionaires’ Ball

Were he around today, the great 20th century journalist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) would have a field day puncturing the pomposities of the incoming Trump administration. The Sage of Baltimore had no …

Manifest Destiny Revisited: Greenlanders Should Scream ‘No’

In his zeal to wrest Greenland from Denmark, President Trump has resurrected Manifest Destiny. Ages ago we grew our footprint, seizing Texas from Texas, much of the Southwest from Mexico, as well as …

Sen. Mullin’s Greatest Hits

Last month, during the Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, the junior Republican senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, chastised members of Congress who might have abused women, while …
Columnists
Whiplash 2.0: Split personality, now the most powerful man in the world
SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around …
It’s Getting a Little Dark at the Washington Post
There have been many political cartoonists – the political cartoonist was as much a staple of newspapers as the crossword puzzle. Thomas Nast is considered the “Father of the American Cartoon,” …
Tragic Irony in the Rotunda
Donald Trump won the whole Monopoly game. He never went directly to jail and always passed go. Timid Merrick Garland, the attorney general, was no match, and didn’t even buy a railroad. The Big …
Thinnest of Skins
Science tells us that our skin becomes thinner as we age. The ever irascible 78 year-old skinflint Trump has been demonstrating just how much thinner his skin has become. “I want him …
Thinnest of Skins
Science tells us that our skin becomes thinner as we age. The ever irascible 78 year-old skinflint Trump has been demonstrating just how much thinner his skin has become. “I want him …
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