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The Man Madison Warned Us Against

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

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.