Capitalism and Anomie
By The American Conservative
A new study demonstrates that foreign direct…
➔ iCapitalism Says the More Population the Merrier
By The Wall Street Journal
When Earth’s eight billionth baby is born, we…
➔ iMarxism at the Museum
By The Wall Street Journal
What does donor Stephen Schwarzman think of these…
➔ iThe US ultra-rich justify their low tax rates with three myths – all rubbish | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
A record share of the nation’s wealth is in the…
➔ iCorporate greed, not wages, is behind inflation. It’s time for price controls | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Corporations are using rising costs as an excuse…
➔ iRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims capitalism is depressing birth rates
By American Thinker
...and the solution is open borders.
➔ iThe week in whoppers: AOC’s birth-rate idiocy, Sunny Hostin’s Nikki Haley backfire and more
By New York Post
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that…
➔ iRepublicans won’t commit to honoring vote results this fall. That’s troubling | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
More and more Republican candidates are in effect…
➔ iWhy is mainstream US TV spreading moral panics about affirmative action run amok? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Television talkshows have huge power to influence…
➔ iHistory will judge Republicans who stay silent about the big lie | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
If the democratic experiment called America…
➔ iDemocracy is under attack – and reporting that isn’t ‘violating journalistic standards’ |…
By The Guardian
Biden gave a rare primetime address on the most…
➔ iMaybe US mainstream media should begin using the term ‘fascism’ | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
My tweet about Ron DeSantis provoked outrage in…
➔ iCapitalism and the Freedom to Walk Away
By The Wall Street Journal
Jean Baechler was a rare French intellectual who…
➔ iThe Guardian view on China’s censors: the sense of an (acceptable) ending | Editorial
By The Guardian
It is not just political matters that exercise…
➔ iThe changes at CNN look politically motivated. That should concern us all | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Brian Stelter’s very popular and commerically…
➔ iAmerica used to regulate business. Now government subsidises it | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
What’s to blame? The change in the balance of…
➔ iBig Tech Censors Covid-Vaccine Skeptics (Again)
By The American Conservative
YouTube removed TAC’s annual Crony Capitalism…
➔ iIn praise of Liz Cheney. May we have more politicians like her | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
We need more politicians who stand by their…
➔ iWhole Foods founder John Mackey: Liberals are forcing companies to back their political agenda
By New York Post
Whole Foods founder John Mackey is a well-known…
➔ iOp-Ed: Solve the insulin pricing problem by getting government into the business
By Los Angeles Times
Gov. Gavin Newsom is right to try 'public…
➔ iReaders sound off on capitalism’s callousness, life after death and the SALT tax
By New York Daily News
Monroe, N.Y.: Many people discuss homelessness as…
➔ iTrump’s worst toadies hold degrees from Harvard and Yale. Did they learn anything? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Politicians educated at some of the US’s most…
➔ iJoe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema act out of ego, not principle | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
If there’s one thing the two supposedly…
➔ iWorkers are being punished for inflation. The real culprit is corporate greed | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Big corporations are using inflation as cover to…
➔ iThe Dollar Emergency Is Worse Than You Think
By The Wall Street Journal
Currency exchange-rate chaos is becoming an…
➔ iThe infamous 'kitchen debate' with the Soviets
By American Thinker
For Nixon and Khrushchev, the kitchen stood as a…
➔ iTrump’s attempted coup continues – even after January 6 hearings are over for now | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The committee has produced history’s most…
➔ iPerhaps it’s time to kick Joe Manchin out of the Democratic party | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
At every opportunity, Manchin has sabotaged…
➔ iAs a 76-year-old let me say: Joe Biden is too old to run again | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
I’m sure the president is experiencing some…
➔ iThese companies are as complicit as the far right in threatening US democracy | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Corporations are underwriting the thuggery of…
➔ iThe Republican party is terrible.. So why may Democrats lose to them this year? | Robert Reicb
By The Guardian
Some commentators think Democrats have moved too…
➔ iThis Fourth of July, it’s worth pondering the true meaning of patriotism | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
True patriots don’t fuel racist, religious or…
➔ iThe US supreme court has declared war on the Earth’s future | Kate Aronoff
By The Guardian
In a major environmental case, the court has made…
➔ iIs your faucet spying on you?
By New York Daily News
For New Yorkers, it may feel like there are…
➔ iWhy is the US about to give away $52bn to corporations like Intel? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The Chips Act would provide an enormous subsidy…
➔ iThe PGA Tour discovers...capitalism!
By American Thinker
Commissioner Monahan gets the message, sort of.
➔ i‘Stakeholder’ capitalism is parasitic progressivism
By The Washington Post
ESG investing appeals to people for whom mere…
➔ iBusiness beware, ‘stakeholder’ capitalism is parasitic progressivism
By The Washington Post
ESG (environmental, social and governance)…
➔ iThe January 6 hearings are damning. But Republicans don’t care | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The January 6 hearings are damning. But…
➔ iThe Crypto Crash: all Ponzi schemes topple eventually | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
We’re back to the wild west finances of the…
➔ iIs the US heading for a recession? Here’s what you need to know | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Many signs point in that direction. We have…
➔ iSan Francisco canceled its DA; who should New York vote out?
By New York Post
San Franciscans finally woke up to the stupidity…
➔ iWhy the televised hearings on the January 6 insurrection will be historic | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
They will mark a milestone in the battle between…
➔ iThis Pride Month, I’m embracing ‘rainbow capitalism’
By The Washington Post
I don't like rainbows. But I can't imagine a…
➔ iHow Texas punishes companies who ‘discriminate’ against gun manufacturers | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
A Texas law dictates which firms state agencies…
➔ iAbortion and guns may awaken a slumbering giant for Democrats | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
A mobilisation such as America has rarely seen…
➔ iThe 'Stakeholder Capitalism' War on the Enlightenment
By The Wall Street Journal
ESG advocates would return society to the…
➔ iAmerica’s billionaire class is funding anti-democratic forces | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Billionaire donors are pushing an unsettling…
➔ iTrump claims immigrants are voting illegally. The real problem is foreign fatcats funding US…
By The Guardian
Non-Americans – whose interests don’t…
➔ iThe second American civil war is already happening | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
America will still be America. But it is fast…
➔ iWe must fight powerful bullies, whether they are Putin, Trump, or tech billionaires | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Throughout history, the central struggle of…
➔ iTrump still won’t shut up. He’s doing Democrats running for office a huge favor | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Trump is framing the midterms as a referendum on…
➔ iOne by one, Republican midterm candidates are falling into line with Trump | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The few Republicans who rejected Trump’s claim…
➔ iHow the Rajapaksas Destroyed Sri Lanka’s Economy
By Foreign Policy
Crony capitalism, protectionism, and corruption…
➔ iElon Musk wants to own Twitter to protect his ‘freedom’, not everyone else’s | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Billionaires like Musk use their vast wealth to…
➔ iWhy did CBS News hire Mick Mulvaney? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
CBS News was once the home of legends like Edward…
➔ iAmerican businesses should wise up. Republicans endanger capitalism.
By The Washington Post
Republicans used to believe in capitalism. No…
➔ iElon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Musk now faces no limit on how much of…
➔ iBiden needs to start going after large corporations if he wants to win again | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Working Americans – many of whom voted for…
➔ iTwo Cheers for the Free Market
By The American Conservative
If only capitalism's defenders would respond in…
➔ iThe Guardian view on P&O’s betrayal of workers: capitalism’s unacceptable face
By The Guardian
Ministers should not wash their hands of this…
➔ iWe aren’t going after Russian oligarchs in the right way. Here’s how to do it | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Sanctioning a few of the richest oligarchs is…
➔ iPutinism is breeding in the heart of the Republican party | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Make no mistake: Putin’s authoritarian…
➔ iAOC's logical stumbles criticizing capitalism
By American Thinker
There was a time when our universities would have…
➔ iI’ve been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die. I’m more hopeful than ever | Cory Doctorow
By The Guardian
Facebook is struggling to retain users, fending…
➔ iHijacking Philanthropy to 'Reimagine Capitalism'
By The Wall Street Journal
The Hewlett Foundation proves again that Joseph…
➔ iBlackRock Responds on Proxy Voting and Capitalism
By The Wall Street Journal
‘Our clients save for long-term goals, so we…
➔ iDon’t Worry, BLM Founders Aren’t Corrupt. They’re Capitalists.
By The Daily Signal
If you’re a woke journalist, how would you…
➔ iA Silicon Valley voice for the heartland
By The Washington Post
California Democrat Ro Khanna has a manifesto for…
➔ iBeware of this deadly mix: oligarchic economics and racist nationalist populism | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
A treacherous alliance is growing that will…
➔ iHow Buddhism has changed the West for the better | Rebecca Solnit
By The Guardian
We are not who we were very long ago. A lot of…
➔ iWealth Is Knowledge
By The Wall Street Journal
Economist George Gilder explains how capitalism…
➔ iThe Fed is about to raise interest rates and shaft American workers – again | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Policymakers fear a labor shortage is pushing up…
➔ iBehind the ‘power law’: How a forgotten venture capitalist kick-started Silicon Valley
By The Washington Post
Arthur Rock's bold approach to finance shapes…
➔ i90% of Everything Is . . . Take a Guess
By The Wall Street Journal
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen explains the…
➔ iCorporate sedition is more damaging to America than the Capitol attack | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Kyrsten Sinema receives millions from business…
➔ iThe US supreme court to Americans: tough luck if you get Covid at work | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The Republican-appointed majority court says the…
➔ i“Don’t Look Up” and Fighting Capitalism With Naomi Klein
By The Intercept
Naomi Klein and Jon Schwarz discuss the new film…
➔ iWhy is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? | Sally Denton
By The Guardian
Business leaders like JP Morgan and Irénée du…
➔ iEntrevista: ‘Na periferia do capitalismo o estado policial cai como uma luva’, diz coronel da…
By The Intercept
Para o ex-comandante da PM do Rio, Íbis Pereira,…
➔ iShould Americans ditch their holiday plans? Maybe that’s the wrong question | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Why do we need to turn this — as we do so much…
➔ iBy ditching landmark climate legislation, America makes the world unsafe | Kate Aronoff
By The Guardian
The rest of the world needs to start treating the…
➔ i‘She contained multitudes’: memories and tributes to bell hooks | Tamura Lomax, Stephanie…
By The Guardian
‘The beloved community bell helped to create’…
➔ ibell hooks will forever be a foundational force in Black feminist thought | Barbara Ransby
By The Guardian
She was able to touch so many people, at so many…
➔ iWhy Nancy Pelosi is wrong about lawmakers trading in stocks
By American Thinker
So capitalism is the same as insider trading?
➔ iThis victory of Starbucks employees in Buffalo will reverberate across America | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
What occurred at one Starbucks store is part of a…
➔ iCapitalism---the People's Choice
By The Wall Street Journal
Gallup finds that most Americans prefer…
➔ iThere is no doubt any more: the US supreme court is run by ‘partisan hacks’ | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently insisted…
➔ iAre Germany’s Capitalists Cool Now?
By Foreign Policy
The pro-business Free Democratic Party is about…
➔ iWhy are Americans so unhappy with Joe Biden? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
One answer might be that expectations were so…
➔ iThe Wheel of Empires
By The American Conservative
When Soviet communism fell, liberal capitalism…
➔ iWhat happens when a Congressman threatens a colleague with violence? | Robert Reich
By The Guardian
The US is experiencing increasingly virulent…
➔ iPresidents' Words of Wisdom
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
- John Quincy Adams
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life."
- Ronald Reagan