Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published last Friday found that the top one percent of Americans gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while the bottom 50 percent lost $900 billion. Jake Johnson writes at Common Dreams, ‘Eye-Popping’: Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion … Read more
All Americans should hope Joe Biden is right about his ability to forge consensus with Republicans and strike deals with them and his fellow Democrats if he becomes President in 2021. Democracy can not succeed when one of its main political parties has become backward and is the beacon of warring against good government. Unfortunately, … Read more
Arizona Congressional District Six, despite ethically embattled Republican incumbent David Schweikert’s arrogant hubris contention to the Arizona Mirror, is in play for a potential Democratic pickup in 2020. Currently, there are four well-qualified Democrats vying to run against Schweikert in 2020. The first is 2018 CD Six nominee Antia Malik. The second is 2018 CD … Read more
Last week the former host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, who has emerged as a spokesman for the first responders on 9/11 in New York and their advocate for the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, gave an impassioned speech for renewal of the fund before the House Judiciary Committee. Many members of the committee … Read more
McSally is going to want to talk about anything other than healthcare over the next 18 months. She probably has a solidly researched explanation of why she lost the last election by now, and it probably hews pretty close to reality, part of which is that her Obamacare stance cost her critically in the election. … Read more