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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Wealth Gap Today Is as Bad as It Was in the 1920s, and More
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: In today's On the News segment: those at the very top hold more of the wealth than at any time since 1928, and …
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Climate Change Is Real: Just Ask the World Bank
It's time to put an end to all of the pseudoscience and climate-change denial talk.
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Obamacare: First Fruits for Workers?
If people are upset about the government giving health care money to people who don't deserve it, they are looking in the wrong direction when they look to the …
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White America Is Oblivious to the Truth About Black Poverty
A recent debate between Jonathan Chait and Ta-Nehisi Coates reveals the misconceptions that rule America's understanding of race and poverty.
Wall Street Journal Spins the Facts for Scott Walker Aide
The Wall Street Journal opinion page has a new installment in its campaign against Wisconsin's “John Doe” campaign finance probe, this time in an effort to resuscitate the image …
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Charles Keating and the Lessons of the Savings and Loan Crisis
On Wednesday, Charles H. Keating Jr., one of the most notorious fraudsters in American history, died at the age of 90.
The Widening Lens: Jonathan Schell and the Fate of the Earth
Tom Engelhardt gives tribute to the late Jonathan Schell, along with an illuminating interview in which Schell speaks of the Vietnam War.
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Beautiful Sunsets (and Sunrises) in Art
While scientists have been telling us about earth's climate in the deep past, and into the distant future, artists on the other hand, have been bearing witness, in the …
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Brown Is the New Black
Fashions come and go. And this year, across the broad swath of Eurasia, fascism is in.
The Myth of Nuclear Safety: Fukushima Reveals That Nuclear Power Is Here to Stay
Three years after the Fukushima disaster, the Japanese government has reversed its position of abandoning nuclear power and is developing new nuclear reactors, despite opposition from a majority of …