I get asked quite a bit why I am moving the South and the answer is simply too complex. And I read the editorial and thought well it can work when you have more to talk about that either spo… Read More

You Can Keep the Change…Say What? One of the tough things to swallow in business is the lip service paid by some executives towards change initiatives. It goes something like this: &l… Read More

Nostalgia for a past removed from historical context can be a dangerous thing. It is the tool of demagogues. Tea Party activists wanting to return to a time of shared prosperity without un… Read More

You Can Keep the Change…Say What? One of the tough things to swallow in business is the lip service paid by some executives towards change initiatives. It goes something like this: &l… Read More

This week, The New Republic's two editorials were both on the illegal immigrant debate, and how it's shaping the upcoming election. Peter Beinart, TNR's editor-at-large and pseudo-expert on… Read More

Most workers are covered by two minimum wage laws, the federal law and their state law. The minimum wage that applies is the higher of the two. (The exception is the small number of workers… Read More

I have long complained that few people understand the difference between micro and macro economics using such charming expressions as "tightening one's belt" with regards to Government spend… Read More

When I heard about the Chobani CEO giving out stock options to his long term staff, I was impressed, less so with the yogurt which I will not buy regardless.  I frankly do not like it a… Read More

We heard banks were too big to fail and the dangers of not bailing them out. Now we see the dangers of having them bailed out! They are very active at creating financial and "busin… Read More

Harold Meyerson/ The American Prospect, 19 de julio de 2016 ¿Qué hora es? ¿En qué año estamos? La primera noche de la convención de Donald Trump s… Read More

Today's big election news is that Hillary Clinton has built (in the words of CNN) "what could be an insurmountable edge in Nevada at the end of early voting," including a 72,000-vote advant… Read More

President Barack Obama44th President of the United States Assumed office: January 20, 2009 Born August 4, 1961 Birth name Barack Hussein Obama II Nationality American P… Read More

Republicans like to refer to themselves as the Party of Lincoln.  This could not be further from the truth. In Lincoln’s day, the Republican Party was more like today’s Dem… Read More

By Henry Srebrnik. [Fredericton, NB] Daily GleanerJ.D. Vance’s best-selling 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, now adapted into a Netflix film, is a poignant account of the destructive co… Read More

That's a good word for it. Will this affect the future of the GOP? Former WaPost columnist Harold Meyerson, the closest thing to an old labor liberal there before getting canned, s… Read More

In a piece he wrote for the far-left publication American Prospect, columnist Harold Meyerson made the suggestion that all Republicans need to be put on a domestic terrorism watch list becau… Read More

A bunch of DSA oldtimers like Harold Meyerson and Peter Dreier say they're leaving the organization, primarily because it's too strong in support of Hamas, but also because it has other puri… Read More

The title piece in the headline comes from Mondoweiss. It's a great piece. That said, while it's written specifically about the current situation with Israel, it applies to about all of Amer… Read More

On April 1, 2023, as part of its 15th Annual Convention, the Platypus Affiliated Society held a panel on the politics of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), at the University of Chic… Read More

As noted by Phil Weiss himself at Mondoweiss, The Nation has published new odiousness by Alexis Grenell, who invoked "goysplaning" not quite two years in relation to similar dreck, as blogge… Read More

Presented by Instagram: Shia Kapos' must-read rundown of political news in the Land of Lincoln Jan 22, 2024 View in browser … Read More

Today’s links The unexpected upside of global monopoly capitalism: We’re all fighting the same enemy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: None Upcoming… Read More