The reason we don’t have this world where the lowest paid workers get $48,000 a year is because of decisions made by our presidents and Congresses. We really don’t need people like Levin trying to hide that fact

While it is understandable that the right likes to pretend that the rich getting all the money was just a happy outcome of the natural forces of globalization and technology, it is malpractice for a progressive to go along with this charade

As a result of this failed leadership, we may be waiting months longer than necessary for our lives to get back to normal

I have been harping on the fact that it is very likely China will be mass producing and distributing a vaccine at least a month, and quite possibly several months, before the United States. This should make people very angry.

There is considerable evidence that CEOs do not earn their $20 million pay, in the sense of providing $20 million in additional returns to shareholders, compared to the next schmuck down the line.

The pandemic gave us an extraordinary opportunity to experiment with an alternative mechanism for financing research that could have enormously benefitted public health

We should never be in the position of having to rely on the goodwill of a billionaire to allow democracy to work

The U.S.-China confrontation is a game for the elites. The rest of us would be best served by sitting this one out

If instead of taxing corporate profits we targeted stock returns, we could be certain of collecting the tax rate we had targeted

In three of the five Midwestern swing states there were actually more manufacturing jobs created in the last three years of the Obama administration than in the first three years of the Trump administration