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2025 — as I drew it AND the year’s top 10 big victories
Office Hours: What’s the next thing Trump will rename after himself?
Five ways to make more than a billion dollars
Stephen Miller’s new bullshit about immigrants
The Big Lesson from 2025? | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, December 27, 2025
A Salute to New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani
My Conversation with Michael Lewis
Happy Holidays to You and Yours
The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime
Finally, the Supreme Court stops Trump
Office Hours: The Shittiest Year?
Sunday caption contest: Prosperity?
Sunday thought: Our political trauma
Trump’s Cognitive Collapse | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, December 20, 2025
After almost a year of Trump II: What’s it REALLY all about?
The real threat in Trump’s madness
Why Americans are going batsh*t over the cost of living
The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border
Trump’s response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner says it all
Again: Beware These Two Oligarchic Bubbles
The Joseph Welch Award for Standing Up to Tyrants Goes To …
Sunday caption contest: The steal
Sunday thought: How Christmas will steal the Trump
It's Affordability, Stupid! | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, December 13, 2025
What Happens When a Bonkers President Takes Over the Private Sector
What my doctor told me, and what I said back
Office Hours: What Will Trump Do to Divert Attention from His Mounting Failures?
Has Trump totally lost it? Watch!
How Can Outrageous CEO Pay be Stopped?
Who’s the Last Person in the World to Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
Sunday caption contest: Orders?
Sunday thought: Really, truly, the end of Trump is near
Trump’s War on Peace | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, December 6, 2025
Trump’s Monument to Corruption
What Democrats Must Pledge to America
The clearest symptom yet of Trump’s mental decline
Office Hours: Who’s the Worst of the Worst?
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America
Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award
Sunday caption contest: Liberty and Justice
Sunday thought: The Bigot in the Oval Office
Please join us for a live showing of “The Last Class” film
Who’s the Biggest Turkey in Washington? The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, November 29, 2025
Office Hours: How will you deal with your right-wing “Uncle Bob” at Thanksgiving?
Senator Mark E. Kelly, Patriot of Patriots
A toxic combo: Trump, Billionaires, and the Media
How to Get Rid of “Citizens United”
Sunday caption contest: What was REALLY said before the cameras and reporters arrived?
Mr. Bonesaw Goes to Washington | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, November 22, 2025
Office Hours: How long will it take us to recover from Trump?
The real danger to press freedom has nothing to do with Trump’s personal insults
Honor and Shame in the Era of Trump and Epstein
If we don’t raise wages at the bottom, we’re all cooked
Sunday caption contest: Epstein!
Epstein’s Revenge: The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, November 15, 2025
Why are Democrats so undisciplined and Republicans so regimented?
An Urgent Message: What You Must Know About AI
Musk and Mamdani: The End of Harsh Capitalism?
Is America Over Trump? The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, November 8, 2025
Office Hours: How will Democrats deliver on the “affordability” agenda?
Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of New York
Office Hours: What will America learn from today’s elections?
What the Democrats Must Do. Now!
Sunday caption contest: Abundance?
Sunday thought: How to cope with Trump’s chaos
TRICK OR TRUMP? | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, November 1, 2025
Office Hours: Will Rising Prices SINK Trump and his Congress?
The Five Ingredients of Zohran’s Secret Sauce
Live with Katie Couric about the Shutdown
In conversation with Zohran Mamdani
Trump Just Announced His Police State
Office Hours: What’s the REAL reason Trump is going to war in the Caribbean?
Sunday caption contest: Hazard
Your Grocery Store is Ripping You Off
Trump's Demolition and Defecation | The Coffee Klatch for October 25, 2025
Senate Republicans Find the Bottom
Friends, the Sleeping Giant is Roaring
The Other Demonstration on Saturday
Office Hours: Should Dems fight fire with fire?
No Kings! | The Coffee Klatch for October 18, 2025
Tomorrow and forever: No Kings in America
The Power Map of the Trump Regime
Talking “The Last Class” with Robert Reich
The Hatch Act? Wassat? Who cares?
Office Hours: REAL Peace in the Middle East?
Beware the Oligarchs’ Two Bubbles
They’re calling it a “Hate America” Rally
Sunday caption contest: Free speech
Sunday thought: the Big Reveal
Really? Qatar gets its own air force facility inside the United States? Why?
Trump’s War on America | The Coffee Klatch for October 11, 2025
Office Hours: Why won’t Trump and the Republicans swear in the winner of Arizona’s special election?
Want to know who’ll be our next president?
Why has the media become so vulnerable to Trump, and what can we do about it?
Trump’s plan to invoke the Insurrection Act
Flying to the end of the shutdown
What Trump doesn’t want us to know about ourselves
Sunday caption contest: At sea
Sunday thought: America’s trauma
Trump's Extremely Unhinged Week | The Coffee Klatch for October 4, 2025
I’ve been through government shutdowns. This one is radically different.
Why this is not a normal government shutdown
Office Hours: How long will the shutdown last?
Senate Dems: Don’t cave! And explain the big picture!
What the Democrats need least: a new think tank financed by billionaires
Again: Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
How a “Sanctuary Community” REALLY operates
Sunday caption contest: Daredevil?
Sunday thought: The slumbering giant is awakening
The Dictator’s Demise | The Coffee Klatch for September 27, 2025
A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants: You Deserved Better
Why are we so polarized? Why is democracy in such peril?
YOU can bring The Last Class to a movie theater near you
Warning to you and your loved ones
Office Hours: Trump’s next target?
The sleeping giant is awakening
“Thoughtful Conversations with Jimmy”? Bulltwat
The moral bankruptcy of America’s leadership class
Sunday caption contest: Free speech?
Sunday thought: Confronting tyranny
Will I Get Canceled? | The Coffee Klatch for September 20, 2025
Trump’s War on Late-Night Comedy
Trump Tightens his Grip on the Media: Jimmy Kimmel, The New York Times, and so on.
Office Hours: Where will Trump’s war on his opponents lead?
Trump’s Calamitous Crypto Corruption
Because Amazon won’t police its offerings, you’re getting shafted (and so am I)
Office Hours: Are we heading toward a second civil war?
Sunday thought: What unites us
Trump Fuels Even More Anger | The Coffee Klatch for September 13, 2025
Trump’s cynical use of the Kirk assassination
The Future of the Democratic Party (if it has a future)
There is no justification in America for political violence
Office Hours: Who’s the Worst of the Worst in Trumpworld?
We’re Paying Big Oil to Kill the Earth
Should Democrats Shut Down the Government?
I REALLY want you to read this book
Trump’s Doomed Economy | Coffee Klatch for Saturday, September 6, 2025
The Lawless and Disorder President
Trump and the Art of Extortion
Office Hours: Who is MOST responsible for this catastrophe, other than Trump?
What My Father Taught Me About Bullies
Two poems that feel especially apt
Sunday caption contest: Labor Day
Sunday thought: Why Trump is doomed
The Occupation of America | Coffee Klatch for Saturday, August 30, 2025
How to respond to Trump’s lies about a “crime wave”
Office Hours: Will Jeffrey Epstein finally take Trump down?
Trump isn’t just axing the Constitution. He’s axing something we all love.
Life in the Shadow of the American Dream
Sunday caption contest: Wanna Dance?
Sunday thought: Is there a silver lining to these darkening clouds?
Today is the anniversary of the worst memo in history
How to Stop Trump’s Second Coup | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, August 23, 2025
How you can stop Peter Thiel’s Palantir
Trump’s plot against the 2026 midterms
Office Hours: What the hell do they tell themselves?
How I’m spending my retirement
Sunday caption contest: Will it be banned?
Sunday thought: America without a president
Trump’s Fascist Thuggery | The Coffee Klatch for August 16, 2025
If Democrats got off their asses, here’s what they’d be doing now
Office Hours: America and its president in 2035?
An important way to fight Trump fascism.
Sunday caption contest: Trump advisers
Sunday thought: Working for the Good
Trump's 24-Karat Corruption | The Coffee Klatch for August 9, 2025
What Blue States should do if Red States super-gerrymander
An exchange with a young person who’s understandably dismayed
Office Hours: Who’s Trump REALLY working for?
Why the hell is Musk getting a $29 billion raise?
Stephen Colbert and I — 15 years ago and tonight
Sunday caption contest: climate change
A Reading From “Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America”
Sunday thought: Where can we find hope?
This week’s Joseph Welch Award
The Trumping of America | The Coffee Klatch for August 2, 2025
Trump destroys our source of information about jobs. This is beyond irresponsible.
Must we choose between saving democracy and saving the Earth?
Be warned: the financial bubble will soon burst
The Fine Print of Trump Fascism
Office Hours: Is Trump out of his f*cking mind accusing Obama of treason?
A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust
The only way to make a deal with Trump
Sunday caption contest: Hoisted
Will Ghislaine Pardon Trump? | The Coffee Klatch for July 26, 2025
Three critical stories that are getting buried by Epsteingate
What did he know, and when did he know it?
The three ways Trump is shafting his base
This week’s Neville Chamberlain Award Goes to Sian Beilock. Who’s She?
Sunday caption contest: Haunted
Epstein's Ghost | The Coffee Klatch for July 19, 2025
What Every Washington Lobbyist Now Knows
The Supreme Court, the Deep State, and Jeffrey Epstein
Office Hours: Trump Wants to Roll Back America to … When?
Jamie Dimon’s Last Stand (Hopefully)
What do Rosie O’Donnell, Lula, John Brennan, and James Comey have in common?
Sunday caption contest: The world
Sunday thought: On being a warrior
We Should Stop Calling Him Our “President” | The Coffee Klatch for July 12, 2025
Where I’ll be signing books and giving book talks
What’s the Real Reason Musk Wants a Third Party?
Office Hours: Where’s the tipping point?
What To Do About the Tinpot Dictator
Now the Second (and Worse) Stage of Trump’s Police State
Sunday caption contest: At the beach
Sunday thought: A national reckoning
Fascism On The Fourth | The Coffee Klatch for July 5, 2025
A way to triumph over cynicism
Office Hours: What would Democrats be doing now if they got up off their asses?
Trump, Musk, Republicans, and the Empathy Bug
Sunday caption: Where to find the truth?
Sunday Thought: The One Branch of Government that Trump Wants to Keep Alive
Mamdani! | The Saturday Coffee Klatch for June 28, 2025
The Corporate Democrat’s Biggest Nightmare
Office Hours: WTF do they tell themselves?
What I fear Trump will do with his war
Trump’s Ultimate Power Trip? | The Coffee Klatch
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America
Trump’s Biggest Economic Burden on the Working Middle Class
Does the Supreme Court Exist to Protect the Power of Straight White People?
Office Hours: How the Hell Will This End?
The Democrats’ “Great Un-awokening” is a Giant Political Diversion
The Most Regressive Bill in, well, History
Why Standing Up Against Trump is Good for Business
Sunday caption contest: After?
Be peaceful. Be careful. Be safe.
Fighting Trump | The Coffee Klatch for June 14, 2025
The Last Class film: Tickets on sale now!
Office Hours: So What's Our Game Plan Now?
The Coward Goes to War Against America
Ultimate Fighting Championship | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, June 7, 2025
While America’s Front Doors are Closing to China, Back Doors are Opening
Trump’s Vicious Attack on the American Mind
Sunday caption contest: Expulsion
Is Musk Gone for Good? | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, May 31, 2025
The Tragic History of Neoliberalism
The Reemergence of Social Darwinism
What Should We Do Now? Live with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
The truth about the Medicaid work requirement
Office Hours: Now that Elon is on the way out, who will be Trump’s ringleader?
Four years of college shouldn’t be the only gateway to the middle class
The New Fascism | Coffee Klatch for May 24, 2025
As These Senators Go Home for the Memorial Day Weekend …
Trump’s Biggest “Fuck You” Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World
What you need to share about the “one big beautiful” ugly horrible bill
Why the one big beautiful bill is the single ugliest you can imagine
The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king
Office Hours: What the hell do Trump and his regime really want?
Stop asking about a Biden “cover-up”
The Era of the Great Bamboozle | The Coffee Klatch for May 17, 2025
The one thing that’s certain to tank Trump is coming soon
The real reason Trump is utterly, shamelessly, blatantly uninhibited
The single stupidest statement about Trump ever made
How the Corporate Raiders Led to Trump
The Grift That Keeps on Grifting
The Biggest Presidential Con in History | The Coffee Klatch for May 10, 2025
Is Starbase the future of America?
A Mother’s Day truth about the “Fertilization President”
Prices and unemployment are heading up. Everything else is going down.
Office Hours: Musk’s most dangerous power grab
Keep demonstrating against Trump — but also for a better future.
Watergate and Trump: The role of citizens
Don’t call them “potential conflicts of interest.”
Sunday caption: Birthday Parade
George Washington would have thrown up
Where will we go from here? | The Coffee Klatch for May 3, 2025
The Alien Enemies Act does NOT give Trump authority to abduct and deport
Office Hours: Honestly, how are you doing after the monster’s first hundred days?
This week's Neville Chamberlain Award goes to
The most important lesson of Trump’s first hundred days
How you may find yourself on the front line of Trump’s immigration crackdown
The first 100 days: Why we must mobilize
Sunday caption contest: Celestial message
Trump's First 100-Day Sh*tstorm | The Coffee Klatch for April 26, 2025
What would a national civic uprising really look like?
Ineptitude, incompetence, stupidity, and chaos
Office Hours: At what point is this a dictatorship?
The secession of the billionaire class
This week’s Joseph Welch and Neville Chamberlain Award Winners
Sunday caption contest: Trends
Humpty Trumpty Sat on a Wall: The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, April 19, 2025
Trump’s Three Unwinnable Wars: China, Harvard, and the Supreme Court
Office Hours: What to do if your old friend becomes a Trumper and asks you to dinner?
Trump’s playbook is Viktor Orbán’s
PS: From Joseph Welch’s granddaughter
This week’s winners of the Joseph Welch and Neville Chamberlain awards
The two tipping points for when we officially become a dictatorship could occur this week
Sunday caption contest: Fort Trump
Is Trump Fu*king the Economy? | The Coffee Klatch for April 12, 2025
12 small reasons for modest hope
Office Hours: Has anything like this ever happened before?
The art of the despicable deal
In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice
The real reason we’re in a national emergency
Sunday caption contest: Manufacturing
Trump’s Terrifying Tariff-Taxes! The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, April 5, 2025
This week’s small reasons for modest optimism
10 rules for dealing with Trump’s demands for capitulation
Office Hours: Trump’s worst Cabinet member?
Why Trump opponents can’t find a lawyer
Sunday caption contest: Ha ha ha!
Is the Trump Fever Breaking? | Saturday Coffee Klatch for March 29, 2025
Trump’s car taxes on Americans
Winner of the fitting-monument-to Trump contest
Where the HELL are the Democrats?
Office Hours: Who’s really pulling the strings?
Why Social Security is in the worst crisis since its 1935 founding, and what you can do about it
How to organize an “empty chair” town hall for your Republican representative
If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.
Sunday caption contest: Puppeteer?
A thank you in this troubled time
Giving Trump Shit | The Coffee Klatch for March 22, 2025
The shame of Columbia University
Is the Muskrat working for China? (Is Trump working for Putin?)
My last tentative reason for nauseous optimism
Trump's attack on the American mind
The biggest upward redistribution of wealth in history is coming soon
Office Hours: What’s Trump’s REAL goal?
More of Trump’s descent into dictatorship
Trump’s further descent into dictatorship
How our global friends can help us
Telling the federal judiciary to “f*ck off”
How to fight the Trump regime’s use of fear and intimidation
Sunday caption contest: Landing
Who will Trump disappear next? | The Coffee Klatch, Saturday, March 15, 2025
In loving memory of my very dear 6-foot-7-inch Republican senator friend
Even more reasons for very modest optimism
Why we need a new free speech movement
Senate Democrats must vote against the Republicans’ continuing budget resolution
Office Hours: Why is there no huge counteroffensive to Trump and Musk?
Trump is a traitor, and Europe is now alone
The Trump regime will arrest some of you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind
Sunday caption contest: Who’s in charge?
The End of the Trump Honeymoon | Coffee Klatch for March 8, 2025
More reasons for modest optimism
The biggest Ponzi scheme in history
The Trump-Vance-Musk-Putin manosphere
The Trump-Putin Axis of Evil | Coffee Klatch for Saturday, March 1, 2025
Here’s the real threat to personal liberties and free markets
10 more reasons for modest optimism
Musk’s lies, lies, and more lies
Office Hours: How the hell do Republicans in Congress face themselves in the mirror?
What Trump is really trying to do
Sunday caption contest: The former White House
We will not accept a dictatorship or monarchy
The Trump-Putin regime? The Coffee Klatch | February 22, 2025
Ten reasons for modest optimism
The Trump-Vance-Musk-Putin plan
The conservative media is going bonkers trying to normalize Trump
Office Hours: What the hell do we do to stop this madness?
How Musk is cancelling the U.S. government
Will the Supreme Court constrain the wild Trump?
Sunday caption contest: Visiting the nation’s capital
Decency in the time of monsters
The Musk Show | Coffee Klatch for Saturday, February 15, 2025
Office Hours: What the hell are they really aiming to do?
Trump’s biggest corruption yet
Sunday caption contest: Geography class
Flooding Trump and Musk’s zone
Fusk Muck! | The Coffee Klatch, Saturday, February 8, 2025
Lina Khan’s warning about America’s tech giants
This is what dictatorship looks like
Office Hours: Where the hell are the Democrats?
How not to describe the Trump presidency
How the Muskrat is messing with your social security, your religion, and everything else
What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness
Sunday caption contest: After two weeks of Trump
Trump’s Rampage | Coffee Klatch for February 1, 2025
An important idea for dealing with Trump, from north of the border
Keep your eye on the big picture
Is Kash Patel worse than J. Edgar Hoover?
Some advice to federal workers
Office hours: The best way to respond to Trump’s neo-fascist takeover of America?
The man no rational person would put in charge of the public’s health
American capitalism just got a black eye
Praise the Broken Promise of America
Sunday caption contest: Sightseeing
Trump's first week: The Real Story
My mole in the Department of Labor sent me this
Trump’s Real Agenda | The Coffee Klatch for January 25, 2025
Here’s how Trump’s vengeance machine works
A view from north of the border
Office Hours: What will restrain him?
Preemptive pardons and Trump’s retribution
Why I remain hopeful about America
Sunday caption contest: January 20
Tomorrow will be a shameful day
The Trump takeover: Fascism or oligarchy? Coffee Klatch | January 18, 2025
Does he want to be more feared than loved?
The LA fire and the common good
How we get rid of the American oligarchy
Office Hours: The biggest long-term effect of LA’s dystopian nightmare?
How to prepare for a Senate confirmation hearing
Will Trump get credit for Biden’s successes?
Those who are fighting the blaze
Sunday caption contest: Genuflecting
Trump's Oligarchy | The Coffee Klatch for January 11, 2025
Trump's Oligarchy | The Coffee Klatch for January 11, 2025
How Trump seeks to destroy the four major pillars of resistance
Jimmy Carter on the American oligarchy
Office Hours: Should we worry that Zuckerberg is opening his platforms to vicious lies?
Advice and consent or total submission?
A day that shall live in infamy, as should Donald J. Trump
Sunday Caption Contest: Crossword!
The Republican Takeover. Oof. | Coffee Klatch for January 4, 2025
From the Robber Barons to Elon Musk: Will History Repeat Itself?
The only real firewall against the Trump regime
Trump will overplay his hand. Be ready for when he does.
Office Hours: What will be our biggest challenge on January 1, 2026?