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60 years ago today, they murdered my protector
A holiday question: How old is too old?
A word of appreciation to the members and staff of the Select Committee on January 6
Alito's Admission
America’s second civil war? It’s already begun
Andrew Mellon’s humongous donation to Donald Trump
Beware: Trump is Project 2025
Beyond Trump (why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 1) (xlnt)
Biden should welcome their hatred
Biden's brain, Trump's brain
Biden's strong State of the Union — and my utter failure advising Democratic presidential candidates
Cowardice and intimidation at The Washington Post and L.A. Times
Elon Musk’s grotesque distortion of capitalism
Escaping Trump’s revenge
Fearmongering?
Finding moral clarity on campus about the Hamas-Israeli War (Seven basic principles)
Five horrifying truths about what occurred three years ago today
Freedom and Power (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 4)
Giving liberals the finger
Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023. War criminal
Honestly, how old is too old?
How Biden can save tens of thousands of lives (and help save his presidency)
How the oligarchy shrank America’s middle class (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 8)
How to make $50 million a year while your corporation goes down the tubes
How to prevent America and the world from falling into fascism
How to talk about Israel and Gaza on a college campus (or anywhere else)
How to understand the politics of Israel and Palestine?
How Trump could win the presidency even if he loses the popular vote AND the Electoral College
In memoriam: A good citizen
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk vs. American workers
Lawless Trump demands law and order on campuses
Less than 60 percent of the vote in South Carolina? Sheesh. Trump continues to do poorly in Republican caucuses and primaries
Moral clarity in Gaza
My 1994 warning about Trumpism, and the crap I got from the White House for it
My father’s recitations
My mentor and friend, Ken Galbraith (xlnt)
My T-group in Big Sur, 1969
No immunity for Trump
Office Hours: What, if anything, should be done about Trump’s incendiary words?
One way or the other, the Supreme Court will determine Trump’s (and America’s) fate
Personal history: Why CEO pay exploded (xlnt)
Putin and Trump have convinced me I was wrong about the twenty-first century
Seriously, again, how dumb is Trump?
Stuck in space (Astronauts and Democrats)
The 20 realities of the American system (before Trump gets a second crack at wrecking it even more)
The awful, horrible, detestable year of 1968
The Case for Nauseous Optimism
The dangerous anti-democracy coalition
The Emerging Republican Theocracy
The GOP’s death cycle
The Great Power-Shift (Part I)
The Great Power-Shift (Part II)
The growing disgrace and danger of Robert F. Kennedy Junior
The lies that undermine America
The loathsomeness of Trump world
The most important litmus test of all
The most important thing I teach my students
The most troubling aspect of today's Supreme Court decision
The Myth of the Market (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 3; xlnt)
The Party of Huge Nothingburgers
The Party’s Over (xlnt)
The Pernicious Myth of Meritocracy (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 5)
The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth
The Supreme Court’s Farce and Ruse
The Trump voter fraud paradox
The Trump-Musk Thugocracy
Trump disqualified in Colorado
Trump is cast off the ballot in Maine, too.
Trump is out of his mind and desperate
Trump's poor showing in New Hampshire
Trump's price for selling the world: $1 billion
Trump’s warnings of violence must not be ignored
Wanna know Trump’s running mate?
Welcome to (gulp) 2024
What about Trump’s dementia?
What do Democrats — and all sane people in America — do now?
What I'm telling my graduating students
What Trump’s lawyer is really advocating
What we can do to stop out-of-control CEO pay
What will Trump’s conviction really mean?
What's really motivating the protests?
What’s the “Chevron doctrine,” and why should you want to preserve it?
What’s the matter with Iowa?
When I got the political bends
When I met Strom Thurmond
When wealthy donors oust university presidents over how they answer congressional questions
Where in the world is Lloyd?
Who do you trust more with TikTok — China, or American billionaires?
Who exactly is trying to push Biden out? (his funders)
Who’s Vladimir Putin’s best friend in the world?
Why Boeing is such a shitty company (continued)
Why can only the rich and powerful go bankrupt?
Why I preach to the choir
Why I was expelled from Miss Bouton’s nursery school
Why I'm so short
Why is Boeing such a shitty corporation?
Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
Why Jamie Dimon loves Trump’s policies
Why the hell is Trump rising in the polls? (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 6)
Why the Muskrat is wrong about opening America to skilled workers from abroad
Why Trump ran away with Iowa