
Tag: new gilded age

I want to push back on the idea that millennials are an “unlucky” generation, facing economic strife, pandemics, and other factors that are severely limiting their lifetime earnings. They
The Johnstown Flood happened in 1889 when an elite hunting club led by the vile capitalist Henry Clay Frick and frequented by other lovely people such as Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon didn’t

California is a very progressive state. But it’s also kind of disaster, especially with its awful NIMBY politics leading to skyrocketing housing prices and skyrocketing homelessness that makes t
When I said the Republican Party was dedicated to killing workers, I wasn’t kidding. And of course, it’s when people’s access to endless meat is threatened that Republicans act to fo

In the initial Gilded Age, the courts took the 14th Amendment, tore it up as it applied to African-Americans, and created entirely new and unintended meanings for it as it applied to corporations, sta
Until this nation gets over its belief that corporations are fundamentally good, we will never solve our national problems. At this point, the corporations aren’t even trying to hide their insat
Scott referred to the Deadspin disaster earlier today. To me, this and so many other closings of quality publications leads to a broader question of whether journaistic outlets can even exist under th
Of course the vultures are ready to profit big-time off our national program of ethnic cleansing. Six high-ranking employees at a nonprofit organization housing thousands of migrant children for the f
- Corporations Will Never Lead the Movement for Justice
- Lies
- Reproductive Rights in Latin America
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,105
- When you’re too ignorant to know how insane orthodox Republican policy on guns is
- LGM Film Club, Part 267: You in Japan
- Starbucks Union: Chilean Lessons
- Cowardly accessories to murder demand the protection they refused to provide
- Uvalde police didn’t want *anyone else* doing their job, either
- 19 dead kids and 19 live cops