Ideology is in the way of a simple plan to end the pandemic in 30 days. Yes, 30 days: Lock down the country and pay everyone up to an annual …
A Full-On Populist Biden Would Have Won Florida
Yawn. That’s my reaction to this perennial debate about whether a progressive agenda is a winning agenda. Of course, it is—and that has a lot to do with how you …
Episode 206: Perez Still Has A Job?; Georgia, Georgia, Georgia; Arizona Hikes Taxes To Fund Schools
Three questions post-election are on the menu this week. First, how does Tom Perez, the chair of the DNC, still have a job? Perez has been incompetent for a very …
Election Predictions–TAKE THREE..AND FINAL!
As we enter into the final few days of the election, I’m updating my first two sets of predictions and musings. Barring some shocker, this is it… Very little of …
Episode 205: Stiffing Corporate Lobbyists; Short-Time Work Salvation; Nurses On The Line
It’s the permanent government—the corporate lobbyists who have friends in both parties. It is at the heart of why we don’t have Medicare for All, why the Pentagon is rolling …
Episode 204: COVID and Inequality—A Love Story; Landslide Coming!
The catastrophic failure to shrink global inequality has given COVID-19 the perfect breeding ground: tens of millions of people are at risk of hunger, extreme poverty, sickness and death because, …
ELECTION PREDICTIONS–TAKE TWO!
As we enter into the final three weeks of the election, I’m updating my first set of predictions and musings—updates are partly adding new information (for example, actual turnout so …
Episode 203: Biden Tax Ideas Are Weak Sauce; Give More Power For The Post Office
When Donald Trump and his minions are eviscerated in less than three weeks so the country can survive, I can’t think of a better illustration of the fight still to …
Episode 202: Trump Is A Tax Cheat—But Lots Of Rich People Dodge And Cheat Thanks To Both Parties
For a sliver of time, the political world was talking about how Donald Trump cheats on his taxes. Virtually every rich person does what Trump does: they use the tax …
Episode 201: Firefighters Face The Infernos—And The Devastating Long-Term Health Consequences
I’ve been thinking a lot about firefighters these days, what with the jaw-dropping video we see virtually every day of these monstrous wild fires scorching millions of acres of forests …