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Who’s Against San Francisco’s Overpaid Executive Tax?
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (484+ words) The proposal is expected to generate as much as $300 million per year. Heavyweight corporate lobby groups have also ponied up sizeable sums. While some of these outfits might claim to represent small businesses, they are doing the bidding of large…...
RFK Jr. Flips the Food Pyramid on Its Head
8+ mon, 13+ hour ago (479+ words) This story was originally published by Sentient. After multiple delays, the Trump administration finally released the latest version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Wednesday. The document advises Americans to eat more red meat and dairy, cautions against added…...
Pete Hegseth’s ‘Pillow Guy’ Press Corps
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (785+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to be in the midst of two conflicts, one…in Iran, and the other with the American free press over its coverage of the widening Middle East war.—MS NOW‘s Sydney Carruth (3/13/26) When Hegseth…...
Can Anti-Billionaire Populism Deliver a 'Blue Wave' for Democrats?
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (149+ words) Despite the growing opposition to GOP policies over the last year, the Democratic brand remains toxic. More than a year later, rising living costs are now Trump and the Republican Party’s headache, giving Democrats an opening to make their own…...
‘No Family More Evil’: Knoa Pharma, The Sackler Family's Second Act
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1464+ words) The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Why would you have brain damage? I asked. “All of the overdoses,” he replied. He said he’d been revived from some of them at our hospital. (Possibly even…...
Clarence Thomas, Unbound
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (437+ words) But the characterization of Thomas as an inattentive echo of Scalia is wrong. Thomas has always been more extreme and dangerous than Scalia, and his influence has never been greater. Thomas is best known for concurrences and dissents that seemed…...
Beyond the Dog Whistle
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (1321+ words) In a recent podcast interview with The New York Times, political science Professor Robert Pape pointed out that acceptance of political violence is today higher than it’s been in generations. Tens of millions of Americans, his research shows, are now…...
Donald Trump: Union Buster
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (308+ words) Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions. The most…...
Board of Peace a Huge Pay Day for Wealthy Board Members
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (389+ words) On Thursday, President Donald Trump hosted the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, a body created by Trump to oversee the security and redevelopment of the Gaza Strip. His son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is on the founding executive board…...
Springtime for Bezos
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (479+ words) Jeb Lund is a former political reporter and columnist for Rolling Stone, The Guardian and Gawker, and a contributor to Esquire, GQ, The New Republic, Vice and The Washington Post, amongst others. He currently produces and co-hosts the Hallmark movies…...