The Grand Republican Strategy: We Win, You Pay!
No longer can a Republican run for president without admitting that the government must do something about our nation's most pressing problems -- but neither can he ask his friends in the One Percent to pay for it. Thus is born a new slogan: We win, you pay!
No, Education Isn't Enough to Get You Out of the Ghetto
Ross looks around at his fellow One Percenters and sees their education and assumes that's how they got there. It's like the old joke about the guy who was born on third base and assumed he'd hit a triple.
Guess Who Tried to Prevent the VA Crisis -- and Who Stood in Their Way!
While the Bush administration plunged us into two wars and cut taxes on the rich, Republicans in Congress were blocking every Democratic attempt to give the VA the funding they needed to give our veterans the medical care they were promised.
How the One Percent Is Stealing Your Money in the Stock Market
The market is rigged, and the public has been lied to about the investments they're making.
Does Obamacare Infringe on Our Liberty? Or Does It Give Us Even More Freedom?
Freedom requires more than the absence of laws and taxes. True freedom of choice requires the capability to make that choice -- and the free market doesn't always give us that capability.
Staying in Afghanistan Is a Recipe for More Terrorism
Barack Obama is daring the terrorists. He's standing in their front yard. He's calling them out.
My New Book Has Been Published! Just in Time for the Holidays...
"Letter to the One Percent" is exactly what it sounds like: a letter to the richest one percent of American households. It is a call to action, a plea for compassion, and a manifesto for the future.
Geography: The Latest Front in the Class War
We talk a lot about the partisan divide in this country, but we don't talk enough about the geographic divide. The citizens who feel the greatest disconnect from collective institutions are often the ones who live farthest away from them.
Why President Obama Is Right to Focus on Inequality
During a period when the economy doubled in size, the total income earned by 90 percent of Americans didn't increase by a single penny. All the gains went to the richest 10 percent.