As the old guard fades and democracy is under siege, the next generation of leaders is missing in action: who will step up and fight?
Thom Hartmann
Americans are wondering out loud why we’re getting ripped off by giant insurance companies when every other developed country in the world has healthcare as a right.
In the 1930s, Americans followed with bated breath the crimes of John Dillinger and other bank robbers. Today's hatred of health insurance executives is right up there with the national hatred of bankers of that period.
No other country in the world allows a predatory for-profit industry like this to exist as a primary way of providing healthcare.
Yoon’s behavior serves as both a warning and a call to action: democracies must stand vigilant against the creeping authoritarianism that threatens their core principles. As Trump’s return looms, these lessons cannot be ignored.
Democrats need a leader that understands the cycles of history and is a master at communicating a progressive agenda without pandering or compromise. That person should lead the Democratic Party.
The right approach to tariffs could rebuild American manufacturing and reshape the political landscape.
Incompetence and conspiracy theories meet a deadly virus: Will history repeat itself, or will we face an even deadlier disaster with unprepared leaders at the helm?
The West’s response to Ukraine could redefine the future of democracy.
The road ahead could lead to dictatorship or renewed liberty, as the American people confront the corrosive power of wealth in politics.
How we went from the Founder's vision to the billionaire takeover of Democracy.
Class war sounds ugly, but it’s exactly what Republicans and their billionaire backers have been waging against working class Americans for 43 years now. It’s damn well time to fight back by declaring a class war of our own.
A strategy to win back America and stand against Trump’s takeover has to get started now.
With bought politicians, and a court on their side—the billionaires have seized control.
America is the only developed country in the world that’s allowed an unaccountable, unelected Supreme Court to hand its political system over to its richest citizens.
While we struggle, they scheme—how a Trump crash could line the pockets of America’s elite.