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Seeing two bloated egos like Elon Musk and Donald Trump hug up recently in their marriage of political convenience made me think, "Boy, there's two who really do deserve each […]

Rightwing ideologues are mounting a three-pronged fraud to delegitimize Social Security, slash its benefits, then--zzzzzt--kill it. First, they tried to demonize our public retirement program as a socialist horror. That […]

If the six rightwing dogmatists who now literally rule the U.S. Supreme Court wonder why 70 percent of the American people consider them somewhere between politically corrupt and grotesque, they [...]

If you think the GOP's Congress of Clowns represents the fringiest, freakiest pack of politicos that MAGA-world can hurl at us, you haven't been to Texas. It's widely known, of [...]

'Somebody better investigate soon.' That's a lyric from Bob Dylan's 'Oxford Town,' a 1962 song deploring the relentless murder of Black people and civil rights activists in the Deep South. [...]

'Corporate crises consultants' (yes, there are such creatures) have patented a formula allowing their wrongdoing clients to champion reform while simultaneously killing it. A classic case is now unfolding around [...]

Populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator JIM HIGHTOWER's writings can be found at jimhightower.substack.com. Although the sun is an essential life force, we need to protect ourselves from its [...]

In the serious business of politics, a little humor can be your best friend. I saw its impact thirty years ago in Austin, Texas, when a group of young, irreverent [...]

Hear it? What's that sound? 'Whoop, whoop, whoop!' Ooh, it's Washington's revolving door, allowing corporate interests to come directly inside Congress to pervert public policy. That door is now spinning [...]

The people are revolting--in the very best meaning of that word. An inspiring example of people rising up against a trifecta of economic, cultural, and political oppression has come to [...]

Here's an embarrassing turn of events: The six rightwing ideologues now controlling the U.S. Supreme Court recently decreed that helping some students get into college through affirmative action programs is [...]

Not so long ago, book burnings were considered a festive group activity by assorted rightwing zealots. Today, though, burning seems so old-fashioned and, well, crude. Yet the concept is burning [...]

Until recently, kids were thrilled when their parents said, 'We're going to Disney World!' But that was in the beforetimes, before Florida's autocratic governor put Disney World under the control [...]

Growing up, I learned a lot of valuable lessons from the example set by my OF Texas Daddy: a strong commitment to the common good, a healthy work ethic, and [...]

What hit the Republican party on Election Day last November was... well, the Republican Party. Blow number one, of course, was from the party's leader and cult boss, Donald Trump, [...]

My newspaper died. Well, technically it still appears, but even when it is delivered it has no life, no news, and barely a pulse. It is a mere semblance of [...]

From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability to make workaday people feel too helpless to change the injustices of the system. 'Don't [...]

Today's six-member ultra-conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court has surrendered all claims to being an impartial moral force for blind justice. Instead, the Republican Party's small network of corporate [...]

It's time to state the obvious: The Republican Party has gone bull goose bonkers. Its leaders have turned the GOP brand into an unprincipled gaggle of corporate profiteers, hatemongers, and [...]

As you might expect, corporate leaders have responded to the Rights of Nature movement--which seeks to fundamentally rethink the way humans interact with ecosystems, ensuring the natural world's freedom to [...]

In the board game Monopoly, the goal is straightforward: Accumulate property, control the board, and financially ruin all of the other players. It was created in 1903 as The Landlord's [...]

The corporate hierarchy has long tried to diminish labor activism in the United States by insisting that strikes and other workplace agitations have never had broad support or impact because [...]

The author offers insights on the employment conditions in the U.S. and the possible reasons why some workers quit their jobs. Topics discussed include the workplace abuse and burnout in addition to the lack of employee benefits, the attitude of executives towards employees, and the recorded increase in unionization and the layoffs during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

The article discusses the role of former Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. supervisor Lilly Ledbetter in the enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 in the U.S. Ledbetter launched a national campaign for workplace fairness after losing in the sex discrimination case she filed against Goodyear for paying her less than men doing the same job. Supreme Court far-right judicial extremist Samuel Alito ruled that Ledbetter should have filed her sex discrimination claim when it first started.

As a writer, I get stuck every so often trying to find the right words to tell my story. Over the years, I've learned when to quit tying myself into [...]

WARNING: A mutant coronavirus named Gubernatorious asininus is spreading across the country, threatening to become a raging pandemic. Originating earlier this year in the Texas governor's office (infamously known as [...]

It's time for the United States to go back to the future--a future of true greatness created by a people united in building a strong nation for the common good. [...]

As a general rule, I don't agree with Republican lawmakers, since they're generally wrong. But after looking into one of their main issues, I must agree: Our elections are being [...]

Chick-fil-A is offering a summer camp for children as young as 5 where they can learn how to be a Chick-fil-A worker. Although the children won't actually be doing the work of regular employees, they will learn tasks such as taking orders, delivering orders, making drinks, and being a hostess. The children do not get paid, but they receive a Chick-fil-A nametag and t-shirt. The author questions the appropriateness of teaching young children about the corporate culture of low-wage franchises and suggests that Chick-fil-A could do more to support the communities that contribute to its profits. [Extracted from the article]

Many of us have read William Golding's Lord of the Flies in high school-and it's still being taught. The 1954 novel depicts the gradual descent into barbaric darkness of a [...]

Many years ago, literary critic Dorothy Parker skewered an unfortunate author with the apocryphal line: 'This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with [...]

I'm flying a flag these days. The Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, America's flag, OUR flag! I've strapped it to my 2011 made-in-the-USA Ford Fiesta, and I'm zipping around town [...]

In the February and March primary elections, a cabal of backroom political geniuses rushed out a coordinated campaign, screeching that impending doom awaits the Democratic Party if it actually runs [...]

One thing we've learned for sure this year is that no national crisis is too awful to keep Trump & Company from exploiting it for their plutocratic political purposes. Obviously, [...]

For me, the truest symbol of America's great democratic spirit is not to be found in the formal and imposing edifices of our republic--the White House, the Capitol building, or [...]