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The Corporate Right Is Giving Us Two Choices: Go Back to Work, or Starve
The right will fight to the death — our death — against any genuine bailout for regular people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here‘s why.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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Donors to Top Fundraising Democrat in New York Congressional Race Include John Negroponte, George W. Bush’s Intelligence Chief
Evelyn Farkas’s campaign has received at least $100,000 from the defense industry, a host of lobbyists, and prominent Republicans like Negroponte.
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Why the Stock Market Is Healthy as Americans Die From Coronavirus
This seems like a good time to reevaluate our treasured belief that a rising Dow reflects general human flourishing.
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The Democratic Party Must Harness the Legitimate Rage of Americans. Otherwise, the Right Will Use It With Horrifying Results.
The corporate-managerial class that runs the Democratic Party thinks anger is an illegitimate basis for action. With the coronavirus crisis, they need to get over that.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Can the Coronavirus and the Stock Market Meltdown Break America’s Addiction to Fantasy?
Let’s use this moment to begin to disenthrall ourselves from our vain dreams about the world, and focus on dealing with reality.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Coronavirus Matters, the Stock Market Doesn’t, and Thinking It Does May Literally Kill Us
Instead of investing in genuine wealth that keeps us alive, we’ve chased the imaginary wealth of the stock market. It’s dissolving like the mirage it always was.
Bloomberg Spent a Decade Demanding Cuts to Social Security. His Campaign Plan Doesn’t Rule Them Out.
Mike Bloomberg’s Social Security proposal leaves the door open to benefit cuts for some beneficiaries — just as Bloomberg has advocated for years.
What the El Mozote Massacre Can Teach Us About Trump's War on the Press
This week’s final, complete confirmation of the El Mozote massacre 38 years ago holds critical lessons about the Trumpist war on the media today.
Targeting Iran
Key Architect of 2003 Iraq War Is Now a Key Architect of Trump Iran Policy
The continued self-confidence of neocons like David Wurmser is odd given how all their beliefs were proven disastrously wrong in Iraq.
Goodbye to William Greider, a Great American Democrat
Thomas Jefferson said all people were divided into two parties: aristocrats, who want to hold all power themselves, and democrats, who believe in regular human beings.