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Are you terrified of 2024? If not, why not? Saturday coffee klatch
Why the hell is Trump rising in the polls? (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 6)
Trump is cast off the ballot in Maine, too.
Why can only the rich and powerful go bankrupt?
A holiday question: How old is too old?
Sunday caption contest: Ho ho ho!
Sunday caption contest: Ho ho ho!
Will Trump be off the ballot everywhere? Should he be? Saturday Coffee Klatch
The Pernicious Myth of Meritocracy (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 5)
One way or the other, the Supreme Court will determine Trump’s (and America’s) fate
Office Hours: Will Republicans pay a price for giving Putin a victory in Ukraine?
Trump disqualified in Colorado
The awful, horrible, detestable year of 1968
Sunday caption contest: Why is Rudy still grinning?
Freedom and Power (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 4)
Finding moral clarity on campus about the Hamas-Israeli War
Office Hours: Should the U.S. put more pressure on Israel to protect innocent civilians in Gaza?
Who’s really behind the drive to impeach Joe Biden?
When wealthy donors oust university presidents over how they answer congressional questions
Ukraine, Israel, Biden’s and Trump’s gaffes, and Norman Lear. The Saturday coffee klatch!
The Myth of the Market (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 3)
Office Hours: What, if anything, should be done about Trump’s incendiary words?
Personal history: Why CEO pay exploded
What we can do to stop out-of-control CEO pay
Sunday caption contest: Free fall
What Really Happened to the American Dream? (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 2)
Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023. War criminal
Office Hours: Why are so many prepared to vote for unhinged traitor Trump?
My 1994 warning about Trumpism, and the crap I got from the White House for it
Four ways the mainstream media is quietly helping Trump and his Republican allies
Sunday caption contest: Infestation
Beyond Trump (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 1)
A time to give thanks and be reenergized for the fight ahead
What’s the real Frankenstein monster of AI?
Office Hours: Should advertisers shun Musk’s X?
Judge rules that Trump “incited an insurrection”
The connection between neofascism and capitalism (and happy birthday, Joe!)
Republican political violence and other worries from the week: The Saturday Coffee Klatch
Why is American capitalism so rotten? (Announcing our next 10-part Friday series)
Why are so many people so down on Biden’s economy?
Office Hours: Are you in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza?
Why the Supreme Court’s new ethics code is neither a code nor about ethics
Have they no sense of decency?
Sunday caption contest: breakdown
Electoral wins? Trump trials? CRs? Joe Manchin? The Saturday coffee klatch!
What is Trump planning if he gets a second term? Chaos and consolidation.
Whose life expectancy is dropping — and what this has to do with the rise of Trumpism
Beyond Trump (Why is American Capitalism so Rotten? Part 1)
Office Hours: Should Biden withdraw, for the good of the country?
Trump v. Biden: How worried should we be?
The war is causing my students to fear each other.
Sunday caption contest: Johnson’s legacy
Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Johnson: The neo-fascist spectrum
How to deal with Mike Johnson — the most extremist speaker in living memory and Trump’s puppet?
The new UAW deal and the future of labor unions
Sunday caption contest: Trick or treat
Help! How do we deal with all this?
The inhumanity of humans toward other humans
Do billionaires have a right to exist?
Office hours: A deathly decision
The real reason Biden isn’t getting credit
Sunday caption contest: Beware
A final word about the common good
Office Hours: Should employers refuse to hire students who blame Israel?
Update: Do you have to be a thug to be speaker or president?
Sunday caption contest: Anatomy lesson
Trying to make sense out of tragedy and dysfunction
The horrible price of lies, paranoia, and distrust
Office Hours: Is Elon Musk stifling honest debate over what’s happening in Gaza and Israel?
The disgrace and danger of RFK Jr.
The rubbish you’re hearing about long-term interest rates
Sunday caption contest: Puppeteer
Sorry, friends (and apologies to Heather): No coffee klatch today
Office Hours: What shall we call them?
Kevin McCarthy is gone! What's next?
Clarence Thomas must recuse himself from today’s CFPB case.
Is the Trump fever starting to break?
Sunday caption contest: Almost closed
A shutdown is averted, but the Republican clown show continues (updated Saturday evening)
Is Kevin McCarthy toast? Kudos to the courts! Joe Biden should not bow out!
Resurrecting the Common Good: A Civic Education for All
The House Republican wrecking-ballers are about to shutter the U.S. government
When Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, phoned me
Office Hours: The worst of all the media’s false equivalences
When the Klan murdered my protector
Mr. President, joining the picket line is a good start
Sunday caption contest: Strike
Resurrecting the Common Good: Honor and Shame
Two years today, with my profound thanks
Office Hours: Why did NBC debut its new “Meet the Press” with Trump?
Why labor activism is good for America
America needs a new sane Republican Party, and here’s who should lead it
My fault there’s no coffee klatch today
Resurrecting the Common Good: A New (and Very Old) Conception of Leadership
Five big reasons the UAW will go on strike tonight against the Big Three
New proof that poverty is a policy choice
Office Hours: Will the Republicans’ effort to impeach Biden cause a backlash against the GOP?
Who’s most responsible for the monopolization of America?
50 years ago: Henry Kissinger and the death of democracy in Chile
Sunday caption contest: Astronomy
Why Have So Many Americans Succumbed to Trumpism?
No Labels, no fables, no third-party betrayals
Sunday caption contest: Sunset
Jack Welch and the End of Stakeholder Capitalism
Trump’s bonkers plan to impeach Biden
Office Hours: Who the hell is Vivek Ramaswamy, and why is he surging in the polls?
Globaloney: Why the Democrats’ love affair with “free trade” is over
The March on Washington, 60 years ago today
Sunday caption contest: Mug Shop
Trump sucks the oxygen out of the week: His arrest, mug shot, and absence from the GOP debate
Trump’s debate response: The fascist who doesn’t want America to think
From Nixon to Trump: The Decline of the Common Good in American Politics
The GOP and the crises of climate change and democracy
The extraordinary bipartisan support for banning legacy admissions
Office Hours: Why are Republican voters more willing to believe every sort of lie?
The four phases of Trump’s attempted coup
Sunday caption contest: Republicans debate
Trump, the upcoming Republican primary debate on Fox News, and Bill O’Reilly
Samuel Bankman-Fried and the Perversion of Civic Virtue
How private equity is destroying the labors of love
Office Hours: How to prevent Trump Indictment Fatigue Syndrome?
The Fourth Indictment, and Trump’s willful refusal to stop intimidating witnesses
Sunday caption contest: Welcome to Florida
Donald Trump, Samuel Bankman-Fried, and the rule of law
My whopping failures (or noble experiments?)
If bosses are raking it in, shouldn’t employees, too?
Office Hours: How to fight Big Oil’s plan to destroy the planet?
Why Biden isn’t getting more credit for everything that’s going right
Will Trump go to jail before his trial even begins?
Sunday caption contest: In the air
Rudy Giuliani and Broken Windows
Here’s how Trump will try to avoid jail
Why Bidenomics will get Joe another term and give the Democrats control over Congress
Sunday caption contest: Panic!
Heather and I debut before a live audience!
Introduction to The Common Good
Office Hours: Beware the Cornel West factor
UPS and the summer of our labor discontent
Hello? You can’t be president if you’ve tried to overthrow the U.S. government
Sunday caption contest: Running from jail
The pending Trump indictment: Where will it end?
Office Hours: Trump’s last stand
The larger meaning of the Hollywood strike
I knew Robert F. Kennedy, and you’re no Robert F. Kennedy
Congratulations on graduating from my “Wealth and Poverty” course!
Why does white Christian nationalism now define the Republican Party?
It’s time to declare victory in the inflation fight
Office Hours: Are these the best we can do?
This is how Biden shows whose side he’s on
Sunday caption contest: Warning
Trump is getting Trumpier and Biden, more Bidenish
My last “Wealth and Poverty” class! Forever! :(
The truth about the economy that you’re not hearing
Competence isn’t enough. Biden must also confront America’s economic bullies.
True patriotism is the opposite of Trump’s White Christian Nationalism
The Supreme Court’s worst new ruling you never heard of
Why are teachers paid so little and Wall Street traders paid so much?
Beyond affirmative action: The shame of education and widening inequality — Class 13
Why I’m not running for president (or anything else, thank you)
Wednesday Office Hours: Why are consumers still splurging on high-priced services?
Who needs a civil war? America is already splitting
Putin, Trump, and the privatization of tyranny
Trump, Big Tech, and the depths of inequality
Three reforms to restore trust in the Supreme Court
How climate change worsens inequality — Class 12
Winkin’, Blinken, and Musk: America, China, and the “decoupling” myth
The warping of the American mind
Office Hours: Will the Republicans’ bogus claim of a “double standard” of justice stick?
The “paid what you’re worth” myth
Trump’s plan to turn the Justice Department into his personal vendetta machine
Sunday caption contest: sleep disorder
Could we really elect a president who’s in prison? Yes.
Why we have the most expensive and least effective health care system in the world — Class 11
Office Hours: Gratitude to the guardians of the rule of law
George Takei posed 5 important questions to me. Here are my answers
Will we go to civil war over Trump?
Sunday caption contest: Convict
Is this finally the end of Trump?
The “deserving” poor: Who should get public assistance? — class 10
The subtle morality of kissing the as*es of rich as*holes
Goodbye, CNN’s Chris Licht. But what’s the lesson?
Should we be worried about RFK Jr.?
Five things the debt deal tells us about the future
Sunday caption contest: boating
The political and the personal: Bob and Heather reveal where they got their political values
The shameful legacy of systemic racism and inequality — Class 9
Office Hours: Who’s the worst demagogue running for president?
Memorial Day and seditious conspiracy against the United States
Sunday caption contest: Republican industry
The deal: The only question that counts right now is whether McCarthy and Biden can get the count
Inequality and the macroeconomic mess — Class 8
The debt ceiling debacle is NOT a “partisan standoff”
The anti-worker robber baron and the anti-woke presidential candidate
What unites the anti-woke culture warrior and the anti-worker robber baron?
Please stop congratulating me on my retirement
Office Hours: The Republican Party becomes the Christian Nationalist Party
How DeSantis and other GOP lawmakers are killing LGBTQ young people
Biden should IGNORE the debt ceiling: Don’t declare an X-date. Keep paying the bills. Don’t default.
Sunday caption contest: de fault
Where have all the heroes gone?
How to make America fairer? From pre-distribution to redistribution — Class 7
What’s the opposite of Republican “law and order?”
Office Hours: Calamity around the corner! What should Biden do about the debt ceiling?
Trump, Santos, Kevin McCarthy, and other loathsome people
The Vicious Cycle of Wealth and Political Power — Class 6
Office Hours: What do you think of CNN giving Trump a full hour of prime-time TV tonight?
Dianne Feinstein must resign if she can no longer perform her duties
Why a new progressive era in America is likely — in about 20 years
Sunday caption contest: major GOP candidates
What are you planning for fun (if anything)?
Power: Why corporations have so much and workers have so little. Class 5
What the hell should I do with my Cabinet chair?
Office hours: What should Democrats do to regain working-class voters?
The Republican threat to our children
Advice to Biden on how to handle House Republicans’ demands for raising the debt ceiling
Sunday caption contest: What's next for him?
The rise of Republican fascism
Why your income increasingly depends on where you live — Class 4
What’s really behind Republicans’ mounting transphobia?
Office hours: Will Biden be reelected?
The real reason Social Security is going broke
Warning (if you needed it): Trump is nuts, and he’ll do anything — anything — to win
Guns, climate change, systemic racism, democracy: How to be hopeful nonetheless?
Class 3: Globalization, technological change, and you
The Fox News settlement: “Accountability” is just another cost of doing business
Office Hours: Does DeSantis stand a chance?
Disinformation about the debt ceiling
What’s the perfect punishment for Fox News?
Sunday caption contest: Justice
Is the GOP turning into an anti-democracy movement?
Class 2 of Wealth and Poverty! The investor’s view
P.S.: When I had to send a personal check to Bill Gates, for lunch
How to become one of Clarence and Ginni’s dearest friends
Office Hours: Will Fox be detoxed?
Why Republican lawmakers are obsessed about sex
Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party?
What happened to accountability?
First class! The problem of widening inequality (Wealth & Poverty class 1)
Office Hours: The bizarre “60 Minutes” interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene
My course “Wealth and Poverty” right here
Trump is indicted: Three criticisms that will be raised against it, and why they’re wrong
Office Hours: What to do about Starbucks?
The lives of our children or the greed of gun manufacturers?
“Morning Joe” and the banking crisis
Distinguishing between a Chinese challenge and a Chinese enemy
What connects Trump’s likely arrest with the bank bailouts?
Office Hours: Trump’s new war against Blue America
Trump’s campaign strategy revealed
Sunday caption contest: Inmates
Are we witnessing a financial meltdown?
Who’s raking in the most from the banking mess?
Office Hours: Is “woke capitalism” the new Republican racist dog whistle?
How to stop playing whack-a-mole with the banks
The real story behind the Silicon Valley Bank debacle
Sunday caption contest: 2024 campaign begins
Want the good news or the bad news re: the economy?
Get ready: Two big upcoming theatrical performances
Office Hours: The Republicans’ sexual obsession
Psst! An urgent message for Jerome Powell
Why Warren Buffett is wrong and Joe Biden is right about stock buybacks
Sunday caption contest: cantina
Murdaugh, Murdoch, and Trump’s loutishness
Republicans are right about E.S.G., but for the wrong reason
Worse than hypocrisy: Ray Dalio and the heart of darkest capitalism
Sunday caption contest: Worst?
What’s Kevin McCarthy’s deal with Tucker Carlson?
Two notable presidential conversations with Zelensky
Office Hours: A national divorce?
Yikes! More drivel over the national debt!
Jimmy Carter and the end of democratic capitalism
Sunday caption contest: driverless?
Saturday coffee klatch: Bad actors
American capitalism returns to the Gilded Age
Don’t let Republicans claim the mantle of patriotism
Office Hours: Fake brand competition, monopoly power, and inflation
How do we get democracy back into presidential elections?
Sunday caption contest: Super Bowl
Saturday coffee klatch: Axe throwing
Why America forgot about economic power
Biden’s State of the Union, and the paradox at the center of his presidency
The shame of Harvard Law School
The state of Joe Biden’s union: The return to democratic capitalism
Sunday caption contest: Balloon
Saturday coffee klatch: Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Today’s jobs report may spook the Fed (but it shouldn’t)
Thirty years ago today, the Family and Medical Leave Act. Now it's time for paid leave.
Today's Biden-McCarthy meeting: A "framing" victory for McCarthy and the GOP
Today’s Office Hours: What is the Republican strategy?
The biggest story you've never heard about today's federal debt
To be "Borked": My odd friendship with Robert Bork
Sunday caption contest: DeSantis’s class
Should Trump get back his giant megaphones?
When Fox entered the hen house
Office Hours: Again and again and again and again and again. Our national shame of mass shootings.
Five truths about the pending debt-ceiling fight that the mainstream media doesn't want you to know
Should Joe Biden run again? Really? Take a closer look.
Sunday caption contest: The House
Saturday coffee klatch: Hitting our heads on the debt ceiling and other lowlights of the past week
Psst: You want to know who leaked the Supreme Court's Dobbs opinion?
What will the House Oversight Committee do?
What to do about Russian money poisoning US elections?
Back to another horrible, hellish, horrendous, totally absurd battle over the debt ceiling
The media's remarkable silence on the cause of California's tragic storms
Sunday caption contest: Santos
The basics: How we actually spend our days
What to do about America's "labor shortage?" Easy. Pay people more.
While you weren't looking, the Biden administration ended involuntary servitude
The Trump coalition of MAGAs and Oligarchs lives on, as dangerous as ever
Saturday coffee klatch: Work and life, or work OR life?
How not to mark the 2nd anniversary of the day American democracy almost died
The last exit ramp for non-MAGA Republicans
Office Hours: The 118th Congress is already a mess and it hasn't even begun