Author: Thom Hartmann

Why are we using tax policy to subsidize giant American corporations in their dependency relationship with the Communist Chinese dictatorship? For 30 years, American corporations have been helping build China into a massive industrial empire while collapsing manufacturing capacity here in the United States. That country now has a stranglehold on things essential to America, from pharmaceuticals to electronics to consumer goods, all because of a neoliberal fantasy that if we helped them become wealthy through trade they would become more democratic. American politicians in the pocket of big business went along with this bizarre plan to increase corporate...

Clarence and Ginni Thomas want to stay on the Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo gravy trains, and Crow’s lawyers are essentially claiming Thomas has every right to continue to act like a corrupt third-world autocrat who’s accountable to nobody, not even the voters and citizens of the United States or Senator Dick Durbin is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has both oversight of and writes laws relating to the federal court systems of the United States. Using powers given him by the Constitution, Durbin has asked Crow to account for the “gifts” he has showered on...

As predictably as the sun rises and sets, every commentator or politician on the Sunday political talk shows say, without being challenged, that the Republican Party understands and supports business better than the Democrats. All my life, in fact, I have been told by the media that the GOP is the “party of business.” It may have once been true when I was a very young child, but today it is a lie — and has been so in a huge way since the neoliberal Reagan Revolution. Republicans kill economies; Democrats rescue and build them Between 1933 and 2020...

America was never intended to have kings or queens, unaccountable to the people, ruling for life. But that is what we have, because Congress and the White House never seriously pushed back against a power grab executed by the Supreme Court itself. It is time to reduce the Court’s power in a way that agrees with the Constitution. We’ll almost certainly have to wait until the next time Democrats control the House, Senate, and White House, but that could happen in another 20 months, so we need to start planning now. I am proposing Congress change the rules of...