Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire as 45 million more face critical hunger
By James J. Devine The same week that 45 million additional people slipped into critical levels of food insecurity, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, giving new meaning to the concept, “Eat the Rich.” The milestone came on Friday after SpaceX, his rocket company, completed the largest stock market debut in history. Musk’s net…
Pool fiasco is a reflection on the incompetent Trump administration
If you had set out to invent a parable about the American moment, you could scarcely do better than the one unfolding at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It has everything: a $14 million no-bid contract, a patriotic paint job that began sloughing off within days, an algae bloom of historic proportions, a cure that…
The Father’s Day Fantasy: Trump’s Economy Is a Fairy Tale for the Wealthy
On the heels of America’s military defeat in Iran, President Donald Trump wants you to believe America is “winning like never before.” On Father’s Day, the president took to Truth Social to paint a picture of unprecedented prosperity—record jobs, a soaring stock market, and the “best economy ever.” It’s a convenient narrative, especially when you’re…
Electoral district boundary lines that erase the people annihilate legitimacy
By James J. Devine Republicans have abandoned any pretense of representation, embraced cheating, and taken the United States far from the “republican form of government” guaranteed in Article IV of the Constitution. Gerrymandering—the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to gain political advantage—remains one of the most enduring challenges to representative government in the United States,…
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