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Big Tech Is Building a New Feudalism
As Big Tech, Big Finance, and Big Government collude to dig us into the unfathomable hole of artificial intelligence, an old country saying has new relevance: “If you find that you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is quit digging.”
You Can’t Learn from History If You Cover It Up
There’s not enough whitewash in the world to cover the ugliness of slavery, and it’s self-destructive for the government to try.
Elon Musk Should Pay the Same Social Security Taxes You Do
This one honest, fair, and simple adjustment would keep the program fully funded in perpetuity.
MAGA to Women: ‘Stay Home and Have Babies!’
The right is engaging in the creepiest social engineering of all: re-engineering the American family.
It’s Past Time to Reform the USDA
Today’s USDA has become a bottomless feeding trough for agribusiness giants and other financial powers that fleece taxpayers — and Donald Trump and Elon Musk aren't helping.
Trump’s Coup Attempt Is Uniting Americans
Workaday people — in red states as well as blue — are erupting in spontaneous protests against Trump and Musk’s corporate takeover.
Trump Is Stocking His Administration with Self-Dealing Billionaires
Instead of corporate powers having to lobby regulators to get special favors, corporate officials will become the regulators.
Trump Bibles: A Story of Biblical Corruption
An out of control Oklahoma superintendent is trying to brainwash kids — and personally enrich former President Trump.
The Christian Right’s New Rallying Cry: Don’t Feed the Children!
Doesn’t sound very Christlike, does it?