Culture

Billionaires are not made by rugged individuals. They’re made by policy failures. And a system that rewards wealth over work.

Newt Gingrich has a take on how Donald Trump can keep from running afoul of U.S. ethics laws: Change the ethics laws.

New studies show being in nature may increase your willingness to be generous, trusting, and helpful toward others.

The big question then is; what kind of a president with what kind of characteristics would be needed to take this country in that dangerous direction?

This seems like the ultimate end game of all these attacks on public education.

NY Times runs hit piece on Sanders and his Medicare-for-all health plan, citing four supposedly independent "left-leaning" economists, all of whom actually worked for the Clinton and/or Obama administrations, are not "left-leaning" and who are actually Clinton backers.

Right now, second only to Trump and his farcical election deniers, are there any greater hypocrites in the world than extremist American fundamentalists?

What explains the unrepentant disdain the elite media cast on Sanders’ bold ideas and insurgent campaign? In short, class.

Right-wing media have been smearing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who identifies himself as a democratic socialist, by comparing his ideology to that of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. Experts have called the comparison “inaccurate,” “outrageous,” and “a trivialization of history.”

Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans’ blame is misplaced.