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The greatest grift in American history is in full swing. Photo Credit: Glynnis Jones/Shutterstock After the election, Donald Trump turned his home in Manhattan into his transition team HQ. That means getting around the area near Trump Tower has become a total nightmare. As has getting into the actual building itself, which is important to the […]

Fewer taxes and regulation don’t lead to increased growth. Just the opposite. Photo Credit: YouTube/CNN Why is the conservative economic formula backwards? Watch our latest video to find out — and share! Robert B. Reich has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. His latest book is […]

An Arab-American activist posed a social experiment asking strangers to trust him. Photo Credit: Meredith Kaufman Younger / Vimeo Karim Sulayman is a an Arab-American tenor and activist from Chicago. Ten days after Donald Trump was elected president, Sulayman teamed up with filmmaker Meredith Kaufman Younger for a different kind of trust test. Blindfolded outside Trump […]

Trump’s Presidential Inauguration Committee has blocked access to the landmark Lincoln Memorial in D.C. Photo Credit: Flickr Creative Commons / VJnet —At the National Equality March Rally in Washington DC on October 11, 2009. Protesters who plan to descend on Washington in the days surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next month will find themselves barred from […]Read More

Russia helped Trump, CIA concluded. Russia hacked RNC, but didn’t leak emails. Photo Credit: Image by Shutterstock, Copyright (c) Julius Kielaitis The Obama White House’s December surprise, a new intelligence agency probe into Russia’s hidden hand in influencing the presidential election, has already yielded two new revelations. The Washington Post reported late Friday that a […]Read More

Given his agenda, Trump will depend on that ignorance. Photo Credit: Screen Capture If anyone ever doubted the degree to which the Trump voter is misinformed, this clip from last night’s Rachel Maddow’s program is eye-opening. It is no longer funny. It presents a danger wherein Trump can manipulate his base to create chaos when […]

Trump’s anti-establishment campaign rhetoric was the biggest scam of his career. Photo Credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com Given his cabinet picks so far, it’s reasonable to assume that The Donald finds hanging out with anyone who isn’t a billionaire (or at least a multimillionaire) a drag. What would there be to talk about if you […]Read More

How exactly do white nationalists propose to create an all-white homeland in America without violence? Photo Credit: George Sheldon / Shutterstock.com So now we know: White nationalists have been working more on their wardrobes than on tightening up the rhetoric and logic they use to defend and present their worldview. Case in point, Richard Spencer, […]

Facts don’t change minds, but appealing to voters’ emotions might. Photo Credit: Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Well … here we are, in an Orwellian maze of “doublethink” and “newspeak,” with ads using language created to put the skids on critical thinking, confuse the public and undermine the fact-checking press. It seems Americans accept and may […]Read More

Spencer divulged the media’s disregard for the black female rocket scientists behind the Apollo moon landing. Photo Credit: The Late Show/YouTube Octavia Spencer is an Academy award-winning actress with her own day in her home state of Alabama. Her latest film, “Hidden Figures,” hits theaters Christmas Day; a historical drama about the black female rocket […]Read More

Photo Credit: YouTube/Moyers & Co. Trump is already making good on his promise to return America to an earlier time, a time that includes a great deal more air pollution, Paul Krugman writes in Friday’s column. He may not be able to bring all those blue collar jobs back, but hey, “in other ways Mr. Trump […]Read More

“This is your own ethics policy at your restaurant… I’m curious whether you get to keep your job under these circumstances.” Photo Credit: American Prospect / Twitter President-elect Trump’s labor secretary nominee, Andy Puzder, has a deep love for ads so hypersexualized they veer into the realm of soft-porn.  “I like our ads. I like […]Read More