Will You Win the ‘Throw Your Money at Amazon’ Sweepstakes?
How much are you paying Amazon? No, not how much did you spend online… How much are you paying Amazon? I don’t mean how much you’re shelling out … Read more
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Monopoly or Democracy? You Can’t Have Both
Lovers of monopoly are waging all out corporate class war on American people — and they’re winning. America’s political history has been written in the fierce narrative of … Read more
How Bad Public Policy Happens: eg, Trump’s Attack on the US Post Office
Trump attacks the Post Office to get back at Bezos Question: If you inject a stream of raw ignorance into a vat of gaseous arrogance, then jolt the … Read more
Goons in Gucci
Bands of nouveau corporate royalists are today’s Goons in Gucci In the fierce labor wars of the last century, industrial barons employed Pinkertons and other goons to bloody … Read more
Thieves in the Suites
Workplace exploitation is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but today’s corporate elites use technology, devious work schedules, and lobbyists to extract more work from employees … Read more
Fed Up with Corporate Candidates and Rigged Politics?
Corporate candidates are old hat: time to ring in the new! Last June, after Democrats had lost four straight special Congressional elections (Rob Quist in Montana, James Thompson … Read more
Holiday Shopping: Great Scamazon
As you’re doing your holiday shopping this season, think about this. As you’re doing your holiday shopping this season, think about this: While big brand names travel hither, … Read more
Where Does Inequality Come From?
The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or accidental phenomenon. The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or … Read more
ALEC & the Koch Brothers Offer to Rewrite the Constitution
The new Founder, brought to you by the Koch brothers When you think of America’s great Constitutional originators, names like Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton and Franklin come … Read more
Laboratories of Democracy
The states are supposed to be laboratories of democracy, not strongholds of plutocratic power. In a 1932 dissenting opinion, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis noted that the benefit … Read more
