COVID-19 Casualties You Should Wish For
Reading Time: 4 minutes The pandemic may not produce herd immunity to the coronavirus, but maybe it will to some toxic ideas.
Trump Wants to Inject Taxpayer Money Straight Into His Businesses
Reading Time: < 1 minute President Donald Trump has benefited financially from foreign governments, political campaigns, and even the Secret Service using his hotels. Now he wants to get his hands on taxpayer money directly.
Trump Labor Sec’s Disdain for Workers Keeps Them Broke and in Danger
Reading Time: 5 minutes Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia has gone out of his way to stymie federal aid meant to help the jobless. We could have predicted that.
Greed Is Getting Back to Normal
Reading Time: < 1 minute Although some banks say they won’t do it, the law that authorized the issuance of the $1,200-per- person economic stimulus checks allows banks to keep part of the money to cover their (often ridiculous) overdraft and late fees.
Why Trump’s Contempt for Oversight May Sink Pandemic Stimulus
Reading Time: 5 minutes President Donald Trump does not want Congress and the American public to know how his administration will spend the massive stimulus bill. That’s a problem.
Ignorance Is No Defense Against COVID-19
Reading Time: < 1 minute You may be complacent about the pandemic, thinking that the coronavirus only infects older people, or sick people, or nonwhite folks. Don’t be. Nobody is immune — and we are all in this together.
Trump’s Dirty Deed: Latest EPA Deregulation Will Kill Americans
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Trump White House has not let a pandemic interfere with its drive to gut environmental regulations.
Bernie Sanders Refuses to Play by the Media’s Rules
Reading Time: < 1 minute Why isn’t Bernie Sanders dropping out? The real reason is very simple: Because he can still win. But that’s not good enough for the corporate media, which wants the Democratic primary to be over.
Trump to Governors: Kiss the Ring or You Are on Your Own
Reading Time: < 1 minute President Donald Trump’s pettiness has reached a shocking new low. He now seems to be willing to let Americans die simply because their governors are not sufficiently complimentary of his leadership.
Pandemic’s Heartless Bosses Stiff Heroic Workers
Reading Time: 5 minutes The workers who are making our lives tolerable during this pandemic should not have to choose between their lives and their livelihoods.