Polluting Ourselves Into Extinction? Will There Be A Warning First? An Alarm Bell To Get Serious?
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Howie Klein
- Jul 17
- 9 min
MAGA Will Take America Right Down The Same Toilet Britain Is Drowning In-- Can The Dems Stop It?
Do The Dems Even Want To Stop It? Yesterday we talked about how conservatives oppose education for the masses in order to maintain their...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 11
- 12 min
Is Congress Tackling The Increasingly Existential Climate Crisis? Just Ask Patrick McHenry
Congress is back in session for a few days between its July recess and its August recess. North Carolina closet case Patrick McHenry,...
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Howie Klein
- May 28
- 10 min
The New Deal Worked Once... Now Meatball Has An Artificially Sweetened Economic Deal To Hook You On
When Florida Sinks Beneath The Waves, DeSantis Will Move To Alabama I don’t know that many people who live in Florida— and most of the...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 6
- 6 min
Conservative Political Parties Embody The Politics Of Nihilism
On Wednesday evening, the Wall Street Journal issued a statement about the disaster that there Republican Party has morphed into. Looking...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 4, 2022
- 9 min
Embracing The Future-- Harder Than It Sounds
Choo Choo These two tweets just happened to randomly wind up in my feed next to each other— no reason I’m sure… almost sure. One is from...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 10, 2022
- 8 min
The Effects Of Inequality Are Both Worse And More Pervasive Than Is Generally Acknowledged
Grace Blakeley has an infuriating piece in the new Jacobin, Corporate Welfare Props Up the Billionaire Class. “The last year,” she wrote,...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 20, 2022
- 7 min
The GOP Is Now A Full Blown Movement Of Social Collapse
There’s a really famous Luis Miguel, one of the best-selling Latino artists of all time with decades of worldwide hits. Then there’s the...
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Howie Klein
- May 9, 2022
- 9 min
Pelosi And Clyburn Should Be Organizing A National Strike Instead Of Campaigning For Henry Cuellar
I come from a Democratic neighborhood in Brooklyn and never met an admitted Republican until I went away to college. My political mentor,...
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Thomas Neuburger
- Apr 19, 2022
- 7 min
Explaining Today's Inflation – the Common Thread
The greed of the already rich is the dominant theme of our times.
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Howie Klein
- Apr 16, 2022
- 10 min
The End Of The World As We Know It-- I Don't Feel Fine
The Most Pessimistic Post On This Blog Ever I don't usually point to Maureen Dowd's columns as worth reading, let alone important....
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Howie Klein
- Dec 4, 2021
- 10 min
The Capitalistic System And Democracy Are Incompatible... Even Antithetical
Banksy created this disturbingly provocative image and I got it from Umair Haque's latest piece about how the capitalistic system is...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 22, 2021
- 11 min
Fascism And Naziism Are Not The Same... & The GOP Is Dragging Us Straight Towards The Latter
Last night, I mentioned in passing that Trump wasn't invited to the Republican Governors Association conference in Phoenix last week....
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Howie Klein
- Nov 20, 2021
- 11 min
American Fascism Has Grown Up. This Is Not A Drill. Is America Worth Fighting For?
Or Have You Picked The Country You're Going To Flee To? Trump's Bakersfield dog, Kevin, knows how to obey his commands. That the...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 3, 2021
- 5 min
Was Virginia A Harbinger Of Societal Collapse?
Everyone I know in Virginia was against Youngkin (and Trump) and I can't recall a single person who was for McAuliffe, a candidate who...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 26, 2021
- 7 min
Bye-Bye? Miss American Pie?
In 1787 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philly were exiting Independence Hall, when a group of citizens asked Benjamin...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 11, 2021
- 10 min
Are We The World's Dumbest Country Already?
Ever since conservatives decided to forcefully and systematically undermine public education and public schools, the question-- How Dumb...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 15, 2021
- 7 min
Not All Americans Are Like Eric Greitens... Right?
Last week, Umair Haque wrote a piece called Why Americans Are Trapped In A Sadistic Society, not a direct reference to Missouri's...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 4, 2021
- 11 min
America's Cancer Within: Billionaires... And The Politicians They Own
In an essay this morning for the New Republic, Timothy Noah contended, with a certain degree of glee-- that Republicans are accidentally...
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Howie Klein
- May 30, 2021
- 7 min
Republicans Aren't Fooling Around-- They're Done with Democracy
More than a few states have moribund Democratic parties incapable of fielding competitive statewide candidates. Ohio and Florida and the...
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