William Greider
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Sherrod Brown Is the Real Deal—Could He Win It All in 2020?
What’s the Ohio senator’s greatest appeal among grassroots Democrats? Authenticity, with a long track record of defending workers and fighting Wall Street and corporate power. → Read More
American Hubris, or, How Globalization Brought Us Donald Trump
It was “free trade” mania, pushed by both major political parties, that destroyed working-class prosperity and laid the groundwork for his triumph. → Read More
What Killed the Democratic Party?
A new report offers a bracing autopsy of the 2016 election—and lays out a plan for revitalization. → Read More
How the Swindlers of Silicon Valley Avoid Paying Taxes
Now they’re pushing an ingenious new dodge that would allow them to pay even less. → Read More
Why American Democracy Has Descended Into Collective Hysteria
We are a great power in decline—but neither party has a clue what to do about it. → Read More
How Corporate Capitalism Looted Democracy
Democrats not only colluded with Republicans in the robbery, but some may now be willing to allow corporations to evade hundreds of billions they owe in back taxes. → Read More
Worried About Those Global Cyber Attacks? They Were Started by Washington
The notorious US spy agencies invented this monster, first with the Stuxnet virus against Iran—but then they lost control over it. → Read More
H.R. McMaster and the Blindness of American Hubris
Trump’s national security adviser understands the limits of military triumphalism. But can he change US policy? → Read More
It’s Groundhog Day in Washington, With Trump Peddling the Same Old Reaganite Snake Oil
When Donald Trump announced his amazingly crude and reactionary agenda for cutting taxes, I heard in my mind a warm and familiar voice from the past. “Win one for the Gipper,” he whispered. It was Ronald Reagan speaking from the grave. → Read More
The Senate Should Censure Trump
If you are sick of President Trump’s crackpot tweets and libelous falsehoods, consider instead the small-d democratic possibilities inherent in his presidency. Yes, Trump’s cabinet appointees have discretionary powers that can do grave damage to our society, not to mention the planet. → Read More
Here’s What You Need to Know About the Federal Reserve
Janet Yellen’s central bank is cautiously tiptoeing toward creating what it claims will be a healthy new normal—the Goldilocks economy that is “not too hot, not too cold. → Read More
Trump Is Fighting a New Trade War—And This One Is Intramural
While the Republican Party flounders on other matters, Donald Trump is engineering a sloppy retreat on the singular issue that made him president—his promise to create an aggressive “America first” trade policy. → Read More
Is Our President Bonkers?
Maybe, but this screwball won because he saw something about the American condition that neither Democrats nor Republicans have the nerve to acknowledge. → Read More
Capitalist Deserter Pfizer Just Got a Spanking
Pfizer, the giant drug company best known for Viagra, got smacked down this week for its snarky plan to save $35 billion in US taxes by becoming Irish. → Read More
Donald Trump Could Be the Military-Industrial Complex’s Worst Nightmare
Let’s admit it. As political provocateur, Donald Trump has a dizzy kind of genius. He feints to the right, then he spins to the left. Either way, the hot subject for political chatter becomes Donald Trump. → Read More
How Trump Dog-Whistles the Business Establishment
Even as Donald Trump woos working-class voters by trashing Washington politicians, he is sending a reassuring message to the business-financial establishment: Don’t worry, I’m on your side, he’s telling corporate execs in coded language. → Read More
Paul Krugman Raises the White Flag on Trade
The working-class voters of Michigan put a big dent in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, but they also body-slammed celebrated economists like New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who made his name by relentlessly ridiculing critics of globalization like myself. → Read More
How Donald Trump Could Beat Hillary Clinton
In the general election, he could win by running to her left—and her right. → Read More
How the Democrats Could Be Obliterated in the Fall Elections
The Trump hysteria now gripping the Republican Party has an aura of slapstick comedy, like a Punch and Judy show being performed by politicians. The GOP crackup is an irresistible spectacle—men in nice suits talking dirty and bopping each other with profane verbal assaults. → Read More
Democrats and Republicans Are Quietly Planning a Corporate Giveaway—to the Tune of $400 Billion
Young people are the good news of 2016. They see the stressful realities of American life more clearly than their elders and are rallying around the straight talk of Bernie Sanders. → Read More