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.
After the Year's Worst Shooting the NRA Continues to Gaslight Americans
By Thom Hartmann A...
The day after the Virginia beach shooting, the largest mass shooting this year, a spokeswoman for the NRA publicly argued that they had no role in the shooting.
How guns literally go to men’s heads
By Thom Hartmann A...
People are asking why the shooter in Virginia Beach used a gun to settle his workplace score. The answer is probably pretty simple.When a man has a gun, he literally holds the power of life and death in his hand. That kind of power is extraordinarily seductive.
America Needs To Recognize Fox-So-Called-News As Propaganda
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump arrived in London and immediately tweeted about how upset he was that he couldn't watch his beloved Fox News and attacked CNN.
Trade & Immigration - Trump's Re-Election Campaign Rolls Forward...
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump is basing his reelection on two primary issues: trade and immigration. At their core, both are being sold as jobs issues, and, historically, both have been. American workers know that employers have given many of their jobs to non-citizens who are willing to work cheaper.
If Democrats want to beat Trump, they better not nominate a ‘free trade' candidate
By Thom Hartmann A...
"[Americans'] patriotism would certainly prefer its [tariffs'] continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers."
Our President Is A Crook & A Psychopath - When Will We Impeach Him?
By Thom Hartmann A...
The only reason Donald Trump isn't facing a prosecutor and time in prison right now is because back in 1973 Richard Nixon's Department of Justice said that they could not indict Nixon because the job of being president was so important.
Bigger Tornados Are Powered By Fossil Fuel Billionaires
By Thom Hartmann A...
All across Europe, when weather is severe and absolutely record-breaking, typically news reports point out that this is one of the predicted results of the current level of global warming.
Trump & GOP - Welcome To The End of The World...
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party are so committed to keeping their billionaire donors happy, particularly those who make their money from fossil fuels, that they are not only deny science but now they are wrecking it.How Do We Take Back the Military From the Billionaire Owned Military Industrial Complex?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Democrats (Bernie & Lee) in the senate proposed legislation saying what the Constitution already says: that Trump can't go to war with Iran without congressional authorization. Every Republican on the committee, except Rand Paul, voted against it.How our republic could die in the age of Trump - in a stunning parallel to the fall of Rome
By Thom Hartmann A...
The American republic could die, just like Rome. Wavering for some time on the verge of becoming a complete oligarchy, America is on the verge of flipping from a democratic republic to a strongman or autocratic form of government, something that's happened to dozens of democracies in the past few decades, but never before here.
Imagine this scenario.....
By Thom Hartmann A...
-- Congress opens impeachment hearingsDemands documents and testimony
-- Trump refuses.
-- Supreme court orders him to do it.
-- He cites Andrew Jackson and says enforce your own decision.
-- Congress demands that the witnesses show up.
-- He says, "enforce your own decision."
