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By James E. Jennings* Tomorrow, 24 July, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under indictment for crimes of fraud in his own country and a...
Kamala Harris is off to a remarkable start. She has made all the right moves. Her address at campaign headquarters was pitch perfect. Her attack...
Trump swiftly reacted to President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential campaign with typically nasty vitriol. Biden was “not fit to...
I’m tired of hearing Republicans claim that we should reduce taxes on corporations because corporate tax cuts create jobs. It’s untrue. Also...
Trump’s pick of JD Vance for his vice president is part of a strategy for cementing Trumpism’s next generation. Vance is only 39 years old....
Why didn’t Teamster president Sean O’Brien use his allotted speaking time to ask the Republicans to adopt the pro-union initiatives that Democrats...
Please join me in doing everything possible to lower the hostility and anger now pervading American politics.
I keep hearing a lot about “socialism” these days, mainly from Donald Trump and Fox News, trying to scare Americans about initiatives like a Green...
At a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, last Friday, President Biden said, “Some folks … are trying to push me out of the race.” To whom was Biden...
I jwatched Biden’s first solo news conference since November 2023. He read the teleprompter well, and the speech he read
Some of us have families and live in communities that agree with us about the profound danger of another Trump presidency. But some of you have close...
“Project 2025” is nothing short of a 900-page blueprint for guiding Donald Trump’s second term of office if he’s reelected. After the Heritage...
Joe Biden is being treated far worse than Donald Trump by the two institutions critical for deciding the outcome of the 2024 election: the political...
Welcome back to our debunking series, taking on conventional economic wisdom. Today, I want to examine the dominant view that global trade is good...
On June 5, Boeing sent NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station aboard its new Starliner spacecraft — the...
The United States is 248 years old today. As nations go, we’re a spring chicken. At 81, Joe Biden is the oldest president the United States has...
I’ve been going over Chief Justice John Roberts’s presidential immunity decision, trying to understand the distinction it sets out between...
If Donald Trump takes power this November (perish the thought), he’ll owe his victory in no small part to one of the richest Americans alive...
The series of devastating rulings over the last week are the consequence of a corporate strategy launched 53 years ago.
The Supreme Court decided, along party lines, that Trump will enjoy immunity in the federal election case in Washington from any allegation in the...
For years, conservatives have railed against what they call the “administrative state” and denounced regulations. But let’s be clear. When
I want to try to reassure you about this country. I know that you’re worried and upset. You have every
As I’ve emphasized in this debunk series, the “free market” is nothing but a set of rules, established and enforced by government. The real...
One of my goals in sending you these articles is to equip you with arguments and facts you need. This is especially true leading up to the 2024...
I’m now 78, and I’m scared sh*tless about what might come down Thursday evening, when the oldest candidates ever to compete in a presidential race...
In 1971, Lewis Powell urged the leaders of American corporations to devote a portion of their profits to politics. Since then, America has witnessed...
I have only one morsel of advice to Joe Biden as he prepares for his first debate with Trump, one
The Business Roundtable is an association of more than 200 CEOs of America’s biggest corporations, their most powerful voice in Washington. Last...
The nation's most powerful CEOs are lining up to fund Trump, because they and their corporations want another giant tax cut and rollbacks of...
Speaking at a rally on Saturday, Trump repeated his lie that the last presidential election was stolen from him, and again raised doubts about the...
Don’t be fooled by the myth that people are paid what they’re “worth” — that the rich deserve their ever-increasing incomes and wealth...
Biden has not condemned specific corporations publicly, or threatened them with specific actions unless they lower their prices.
I’ve analyzed every poll and survey over the last two months, and they all tell the same basic story: Voters’ top issue is high prices and the...
More than a third of Harvard’s graduating seniors are heading into finance and management consulting — two professions notable for how quickly...
I’m no fan of secret recordings designed to entrap public officials into saying things they’d rather not have the public hear, but Justice Samuel...
As usual, Trump signals what he’s planning to do before he does it. He’s already signaled that he won’t accept the results of the 2024...
Yet we did need it and what we believed we knew is now confirmed.
The consensus among economists is that this week’s jobs report, showing that the United States added a whopping 272,000 jobs in May, will cause the...
Last week, we saw how economics is inextricably connected to politics and morality — and the underlying questions are what we mean by a good society...
O the 80th anniversary of D-Day, seems an appropriate occasion to reaffirm our commitment to democracy and against fascism — which means doing...
Elon Musk and convicted felon Donald Trump have been in contact several times a month since their private meeting in
As we slump toward the 2024 election, America faces harrowing existential crises — climate change, the potential loss of our democracy to...
The government measures all sorts of consumer behavior: consumer spending, consumer confidence, consumer sentiment. The business pages are filled with...
Anyone who tells you they know what effect Trump’s conviction will have on the 2024 election is lying. America has never been here before. My...
Welcome to our 10-part DEBUNK series! Its goal is to equip you with what you need to know so you’re not misled by the most dangerous myths about...
Convicted felon Donald J. Trump has attacked the judge and prosecutors, but he will find it far more difficult to
Elon Musk and entrepreneur and investor David Sacks reportedly held a secret billionaire dinner party in Hollywood last month. Its purpose:...
U.S. oligarchs are backing Donald Trump and the neofascists surrounding him in a bid to roll back the clock to the Gilded Age.
The Supreme Court decision announced in Alexander vs. State Conference of the South Carolina NAACP — written by Samuel Alito, and joined by the...
When I left the president’s Cabinet in early 1997 after over four years as secretary of labor, I felt enormous