Fascism has a playbook, handed down from generations of dictators, all who ascended to power using this easy-to-follow checklist. Part of that checklist is doing away with "objectionable" reading material.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Covid is a boon for healthcare profiteering. It costs a hell of a lot more to care for a sick person who needs ICU care than it does to vaccinate someone and have people wear masks and remain six feet apart.
A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading lies that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.
Blatant racial discrimination has driven hundreds of thousands of good, Black farmers off the land.
Anti-vax hysteria obscures the fact that a vast river of money is being spent on hospitalization of those who bought into anti-vax messaging.
Filibusters do occur in some state legislatures, but they rarely succeed in blocking legislation. Unlike the U.S. Senate, most state legislatures still operate on the Founders’ majoritarian principles.
"By any objective measure, Louis DeJoy, a top campaign contributor of Donald Trump, has been, by far and away, the worst postmaster general in the modern history of America."
Joe Manchin has been bullshitting the entire country for months with arguments and fake negotiations for a bill that is extremely popular with voters and good for the economy, but not so much with his financial backers, or his personal interests. Betrayal is too tame a word.
Races for secretary of state are expected to have a higher profile in 2022, and possibly nowhere more than in Georgia, where the candidacy of Bee Nguyen, plus Stacey Abrams’ gubernatorial bid, will put voting rights at the center.
The restoration of voting rights, on the table now in the Senate, means nothing more than the future of our democratic system, or its demise under a one-party dictatorship.
Stunning and critical information is packed into Liz Cheney's announcement of the contempt finding on Mark Meadows.
The study of Fascist Economic History will alert people to the path the current decrepit, corrupt and degraded Republican Party has chosen. This might be one of the reasons Republicans seem to hate history education so much.
According to ProPublica’s analysis of a secret trove of tax data, from 2005 to 2018, Phyllis Taylor took in some $444 million in income, most of it from wages, interest, dividends and capital gains, and didn’t pay a cent in federal income tax.
Donald Trump and other ultrarich Americans have made billions, but they’ve also managed to repeatedly dodge paying any federal income tax by claiming huge losses on their businesses.
The NRA and its supporters simply believe that their ability to own guns is more important than the lives of your children. Your children. Perhaps theirs, but definitely yours.
Dr. Oz, like many TV personalities, is really a pitch man. He's there to sell products for advertisers or those of his guests. But his real business is the Dr. Oz Good Life brand. He sells entire bedding and sleep systems. Yes, pillows too.