Is Trump Steering the US towards Fascism?
5 min read By Henry A. Giroux, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
How do we fix Facebook? An exchange between two scholars (Part 1 of 4)
7 min read By Dean Baker, Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington D.C.
I was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton: Bloomberg is an Oligarch trying to buy the US Presidency
3 minute read "I’m not saying that great wealth should disqualify you from becoming president...The problem lies at the nexus of wealth and power, where those with great wealth use it to gain great power. This is how oligarchy destroys democracy," writes Robert Reich, (former) Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, University of California (Feb. 19th, 2020)
Elizabeth Warren Goes After Big Pharma’s Big Bucks on Medicare For All (Quick Read)
"Ending a patent monopoly will typically reduce the price of a drug by 90 percent or more," writes Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research (Nov. 20th, 2019)
2020 Presidential Candidates Top $100 Million in Digital Ads. Trump is spending the most $$$ (see what the candidates are spending in this article)
"Trump is by far the top 2020 spender on digital ads overall, too. Billionaire investor Tom Steyer is a distant second with $13.4 million and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg comes in third at $9.3 million," write Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics (Nov. 20th, 2019)
KAMADIA – Public Impeachment Hearings Begin: Expect Trump to Win
"Trump commanded so much influence that as many observed, the 'Republican Party' had ceased to exist, and a more accurate name for the group would have been the 'Trump Party'," writes Aly Kamadia, Editor-In-Chief of iDose (Nov. 13th, 2019)
I was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton: The Economy is Rigged, and only two Democrats have the agenda that’ll beat Trump
"The only way Democrats win is with an agenda of fundamental democratic and economic reform, such as provided by," writes Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor (under Bill Clinton), University of California (Nov 6th, 2019)
Investigations usually hurt a president’s public reputation – but Trump is hardly ‘usual’
"Investigations often damage a president’s reputation in the public eye – but that may not matter to a historically unpopular president like Trump," write Douglas L. Kriner, Cornell University and Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley (Oct. 30th, 2019)