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Office Hours: Who's the worst demagogue running for president?
DeSantis has come out against the debt-ceiling bill. That gives him an edge.
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Five fake crises
The GOP has manufactured them to deflect our attention from the real crisis
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Memorial Day and seditious conspiracy against the United States
Friends Memorial Day as an occasion to honor those who have given their lives so that our democracy can endure. It’s also an occasion to reaffirm our…
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What Dr. Phil wants me to do
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Why did CNN do it?
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My upcoming “retirement.”
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Office Hours: The Republican Party becomes the Christian Nationalist Party
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Time for Collins and Democrats to walk the walk and pass a national right to abortion law
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Sunday caption contest: Republican industry
Please submit your caption in the Comments section. Winners will be announced next Sunday. For consideration, please post your caption by tomorrow…
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The deal: The only question that counts right now is whether McCarthy and Biden can get the count
Friends, Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden reached a deal last night to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the United States from defaulting on…
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This week’s truths
Listen now (20 min) | Saturday coffee klatch with Heather Lofthouse
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Inequality and the macroeconomic mess — Class 8
Friends, This week we look at one of the most hidden of all contributors to widening inequality — macroeconomic policies. Given the current fight over…
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The debt ceiling debacle is NOT a “partisan standoff”
It was completely manufactured by Kevin McCarthy and his House Republicans
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The anti-worker robber baron and the anti-woke presidential candidate
[Some of you received an earlier version of this letter last night] Friends, Did you catch Ron DeSantis’s announcement on Twitter? No? Of course not…
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Sorry. I intended to send out my latest letter first thing tomorrow morning but was hit a technological glitch of my own making (sort of like DeSantis…
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The Roots of Trumpism
Part 1: The roots
Part 2: The myth of the "free market"
Part 3: The Democrats' disease
Part 4: Gingrich
Part 5: McCarthy
Part 6: Talk radio in 1994
Part 7: Wisconsin before the '94 midterms
Part 8: The riot that started the culture wars
Wealth & Poverty
Announcing the last course!
Class 1: What has happened to income and wealth inequality over the last 40 years?
Class 2: The investor's view
Class 3: Globalization, technological change, and you
Class 4: Widening inequalities of place
Class 5: Why corporations have power, and workers don't
Class 6: The vicious cycle of wealth and political power
Class 7: Taxing, redistributing and predistributing
Class 8: Inequality and the marcoeconomic mess
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