The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an investment commodity. America’s morbidly rich billionaires are at it again, this time screwing the average family’s ability to have decent, affordable housing in their never-ending quest for more, more, more. Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, […]
When Republicans say that your grandmother stayed with your grandfather and should be your role model, there’s a lot they are leaving out. Josh and Amanda Zurawski thought they had the American Dream going for them; they’d gotten married a year earlier and bought a beautiful Austin, Texas home with views of a lake and […]
There are few Americans alive today who remember Hitler, and for most of us the details of his rise to power are lost to the mists of time. But Donald Trump is bringing it all back to us with a fresh, stark splash of reality. The Nazis in America are now “out.” This morning, former […]
We’re on the edge of the open enrollment period for Medicare, and the Advantage scammers will be carpet-bombing America with advertisements over the next few months. Don’t be fooled about what it is—and who is profiting. President George W. Bush and Republicans (and a handful of on-the-take Democrats) in Congress created the Medicare Advantage scam in […]