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How To Create a New World Without Elons

Sam Pizzigati CounterPunch
The best way to counter our ongoing billionaire coup? We might want to look east for a five-step set of initiatives designed to cut the super rich down to democratic size.

Trump’s Reign of Cruelty

Henry Giroux CounterPunch
Neoliberalism’s Embrace of Cruelty and Its Assault on Social Bonds

The DOGE Czar’s Plan To Loot Medicare

Maureen Tkacik The American Prospect
Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.

Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong

Eugene Ludwig Politico
Many in Washington bristled at the public’s failure to register how strong the economy was during the Biden Administration but were they relying on flawed statistics? Unemployment was higher, wages lower, growth less robust than was claimed.