Trump and the GOP are blatantly encouraging foreign dictators to hack the 2020 election
By Thom Hartmann A...
It looks like Donald Trump and the leadership of the GOP are encouraging other countries to hack our upcoming 2020 election.The New Horror Awaiting Us If the GOP Is Successful
By Thom Hartmann A...
Trump and the Republican Party have been screaming about the horrors of Obamacare ever since it was passed in the early years of the Obama presidency. Today, their lawsuit to completely destroy Obamacare is being heard in a federal appeals court, and may well go from there to the Supreme Court.
America Concentration Camps & Voter Suppression - What Will it Take for Trump Supporters To See the Light?
By Thom Hartmann A...
El Salvador and Honduras right now have the highest civilian homicide rates in the world. In the entire world. Even higher than countries like South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are experiencing civil wars.How Should the Democrats Deal with the Fact That Trump's Base Loves His Cruelty on the Border?
By Thom Hartmann A...
While most of America is shocked and horrified by the stories and pictures coming out of Trump's concentration camps, part of America is delighted.
Time for a Nation Service Program & A Draft?
By Thom Hartmann A...
If we want to stop stupid wars, we need a draft. For the past 18 years, the United States has continuously been at war, and now Trump is threatening more wars with Iran and Venezuela.
When the Economy Crashes Will America Move to the Hard Right or Left?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie are confirming the numbers that Bernie Sanders and other progressives keep pointing out - that three men in America own more wealth than the bottom half of America - over 160 million people.
Who Will Stop World War III?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Back in 2001, after 9/11, Congress gave the president the authority to basically wage war anywhere in the world where there were governments affiliated with Al Qaeda, the radical Sunni Muslim group that came out of the Saudi Wahhabist movement. Iran is Shia Muslim, essentially the sworn enemies of the Sunnis.
An economic crash is looming, and it could determine the fate of Trump - and the country
By Thom Hartmann A...
If he times it right, Donald Trump might set back the Democratic Party for a generation or more; if he misses, he'll go down in history along with Herbert Hoover as the guy who brought the nation an economic disaster.What Would Prevent You From Going Vegan If It both Saved the World & Your Body?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Want to save the world, save some money, and live a few years longer than you might otherwise? You can do all three at once by simply going vegan. The single most powerful thing that any American can do to fight global climate change is to stop eating meat and dairy products.
Whose Base is Bigger - Democrats or Republicans?
By Thom Hartmann A...
In 1980, the Democratic and Republican parties went in different directions with regard to how to win elections. Knowing that so-called "swing voters" only represent about 5% of voters, Republicans worked hard to get out their base of hard-core right wingers.
The American Dream is Alive & Well In China
By Thom Hartmann A...
As we are seeing millions of people in the streets in Hong Kong becoming politically active, we also learned that roughly 70% of Chinese millennials already own their own homes.
Here's what the feud and reconciliation between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson can teach us about civility
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump did not invent the art of the political insult but he's inflamed the level of vitriolic public discourse and incivility to a new low unmatched by other presidents. In a tainted tradition that has permeated our history, other presidents have not been immune to dishing out acerbic insults against one another.To Save 99% of Americans - We Have to Tax the Rich
By Thom Hartmann A...
The massive inequality we are now experiencing in the United States has a singular source. It started with the Reagan tax cut that took tax rates on the wealthiest Americans from 74%, where it had been for two generations, and lowered it to 25%.
How Fears of Abolition Shaped the Second Amendment
By Thom Hartmann A...
Little did Madison, Jefferson, or Henry realize that one day in the future, weapons-manufacturing corporations, newly defined as "persons" by a dysfunctional Supreme Court, would use his slave-patrol militia amendment to protect their "right" to manufacture and sell guns to individuals who would use them to murder schoolchildrenIt's to Be a Democracy, Ma'am, if You Can Keep It
By Thom Hartmann A...
America is divided. With one single exception, every state is entirely under the control of one party or the other. A large part of this divide is being driven by big money propping up the Republican Party so that they can get lower taxes and less protections for the public, also known as regulations.
