Economy

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The corporate media and the political establishment have always loathed Sanders, but this distaste has taken different forms. Sanders supporters would do well not only to scrutinize current opposition strategies but also to be alert to new and dangerous modes of attack. Distaste of Sanders has often […]

Constitution

Chief Justice Roberts is Forced to Preside over an Impeachment that his Ruinous “Citizens United” Ruling Helped Foster

Tiffany Muller

(Inequality.org) – In the decade since this disastrous Supreme Court ruling, just 11 wealthy people have made 20 percent of super PAC donations. Ten years ago this week, the Supreme Court released its disastrous 2010 Citizens United decision. The court, either through remarkable naivety or sheer malevolence, essentially married two terrible ideas: that “money equals […]

African-Americans

A Dream Denied: Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death

The Conversation

By Sharon Austin | – On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half century ago, the wholesale racial integration required by the 1964 Civil Rights Act was just beginning to chip away at discrimination in education, jobs and public […]

Inequality

Top 8 Ways the Massive Trump Tax Cut Made the Super-Rich Super-Richer and Failed Working Families

Inequality.org

By Frank Clemente | – In the two years since Congress passed the Republican tax law, the richest 1 percent have been the big winners. Republicans repeatedly promised in 2017 that their proposed tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations would increase jobs, pay for themselves, give every family a big raise and would really […]

Inequality

World’s 500 Richest People Gained $1.2 Trillion in Wealth in 2019: Analysis

Common Dreams

By Jake Johnson, staff writer | – ( Commondreams.org) – “In the U.S., the richest 0.1% control a bigger share of the pie than at any time since 1929.” The 500 richest people in the world, all of whom are billionaires, gained a combined $1.2 trillion in wealth in 2019, further exacerbating inequities that have […]

Education

How the Education Department Is Ripping Off Defrauded Students

Jill Richardson

Students who got defrauded by for-profit colleges were going to get loan forgiveness — until Betsy DeVos showed up.

Mental Health

Who’s Afraid of Medicare for All?

OtherWords

Not ordinary Democrats or independents — just insurance companies, lobbyists, and old-line politicians.

Democracy

From Tory Landslide to Trump non-Impeachment: Can Filthy Rich Liars sink Democracy in Britain and the U.S.?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The danger to democracy posed by our new information system plus our new levels of wealth concentration cannot be overestimated. The degree of inequality both in the US and the UK is now virtually unprecedented, as is media consolidation. That is, fewer and much wealthier people own more and more […]

Plutocracy

Billionaires Can buy our Presidential Election at $100/ vote and Still Make Money!

OtherWords

( Otherwords.org ) – America’s wealthiest billionaires buy a national election at $100 a vote — and still make money. Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York’s mayors since 1942, hosted billionaire Michael Bloomberg for three terms. The first of these terms began after Bloomberg, then the Republican candidate for mayor, spent an incredible […]