[Note to BfAZ readers: This is my op-ed piece in today’s AZ Republic. If you’re interested in the subject, my IPS colleague, Sam Pizzigati, and I cover it in greater depth at Inequality.org] Arizona teachers will get well-deserved raises under Proposition 208, the initiative that increases taxes on the 50,000 or so highest-income earners in our state and … Read more
Donald Trump appears to have moved on to the corrupt presidential pardon phase after the “GOP Clown Car Coup” is failing spectacularly in humiliating defeats in court. Politico reports, Trump pardons former national security adviser Flynn: Outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Wednesday for lying to FBI agents … Read more
In September, the National Restaurant Association released a survey which showed nearly 1 in 6 restaurants (representing nearly 100,000 restaurants) is closed either permanently or long-term; nearly 3 million employees are still out of work; and the industry is on track to lose $240 billion in sales by the end of the year. 100,000 Restaurants Closed … Read more
The Trump campaign’s final act of desperation to overturn the election results in battleground states in a misguided belief that Republican state legislatures can substitute a slate of electors for Donald Trump over the popular vote winner Joe Biden – they cannot – is to file a series of copy and paste lawsuits in the … Read more
Many gave President Gerald Ford credit for pardoning President Richard Nixon to “put Watergate behind us.” Ford justified this decision by claiming that a long, drawn-out trial would only have further polarized the public. Many others strongly disagreed. Ford’s press secretary, J.F. terHorst, resigned in protest. The American people were convinced that President Ford was “wrong … Read more