The GOP’s “Pro-Life” Lie
/We all know Trump and Hannity, but not much about Michael Cohen’s other client, Elliott Broidy.
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/Recently, 300 leading oil industry executives, government officials, economists, historians and scientists got together at Columbia University for a symposium called Energy and Man, organized by the business school and the American Petroleum Institute.
Read MoreThe Last of "Country First"
/John McCain is close to the end, and it feels like the end of an era where Republicans had what James Comey called “A Higher Loyalty.”
Read MoreTrump Might Accidentally Save the Planet
/I’m guessing our trade war with China will turn out to hurt all the businesspeople Trump doesn’t like and help the businesspeople who eat lunch at Mar-a-Lago. Just by coincidence. That’s how it worked with Perón.
Read MoreGlum and Glummer
/What good is being “exceptional” and “the greatest country on Earth” if we’re not happy?
Read MoreLegalize This
/America has a rather large opioid problem, and one of the things about opioids that makes the problem so hard to kick is that it’s so hard to kick opioids.
Read MoreCorporatocracy
/If Black Lives Matter protests were “Obama’s America,” putting profit and corporate greed before the health and wellbeing of the people is “Trump’s America.”
Read MoreBlue Waver
/You could blame a lot of things for Hillary losing the election – Russian bots, the Electoral College, Jill Stein siphoning away swing-state votes, Bernie Bros staying home to pout… But let’s not forget one other factor – the media.
Read MoreGame Over
/Ready Player One is a futuristic, sci-fi fantasy where existence in the real world has become so bleak that people retreat as their self-created avatars into a virtual world called OASIS, where everything is fun and exciting and entertaining. And I’m not so sure we aren’t actually headed there.
Read MoreCourt of Upheavals
/The media pays attention to Trump’s tweets as if each one were a mini Magna Carta, but Trump is doing real damage without the attention his damage deserves.
Read MoreBible Trumpers
/We’re a country where 87 percent of households own a bible, but only 11 percent of us have read it all the way through.
Read MoreAmerica on Autopilot
/Every day I read another article by a credulous reporter who’s just ridden in a driverless car, and how it’s the future and he’s very excited… and it’s not until the sixth or seventh paragraph that you find out there was actually a person in the driver’s seat the whole time, ready to take over if the computer crapped out.
Read MoreAn Inconvenient Study
/A few years ago, during the horrific anti-business period known as the Obama administration, regulation ran amok.
Read MoreRemember Me? I'm the National Debt
/Republicans blow up the deficit, Democrats clean it up, Republicans blow up the deficit, Democrats…
Read MoreDem Fatale
/Donald Savastano was a New York carpenter - and a good one - who, like so many other decent, hard-working Americans, was barely getting by.
Read MoreNot Fat Enough!
/Amy Schumer’s new movie "I Feel Pretty", is a story about a woman who struggles with feelings of inadequacy, but then gains the self-love to be the most confident woman in the world. Everyone is applauding Hollywood for replacing misogynistic and sexist portrayals of women with a message of personal empowerment. Just kidding!
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