We will get straight to the point:
Richard Eskow
Richard (RJ) Eskow is a senior fellow at Campaign for America's Future.
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Views Monday, August 14, 2017 Trump Won’t Say It, But We Will: White Terror in Charlottesville Her name was Heather Heyer . She was marching for justice in Charlottesville when she was killed by a white racist. Say her name. His name was Timothy Caughman . He was walking down the street in New York City when he was killed by a white racist. Say his name. Their names were Ricky John Best and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 02, 2017 Land Taken From Freed Slave’s Descendants for Amazon Data Center? This is a story about property: real and imagined, legitimate and illegitimate. It’s a story about who gets to decide who can own what, and whom. It’s a story of reality, both physical and virtual. It’s a story that begins with humans in chains, moves through Disney’s desire to make a theme park... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 01, 2017 Kochs and Trump Team Up to Cut Billionaires’ Taxes This headline appeared on Monday, July 31, 2017, at precisely 4:00 am: “ Koch Brothers Move to Back White House’s Tax-Cut Plan .” This one appeared less than twelve hours later: “ White House sees tax reform zipping through Congress in October, November .” That’s what you get when you combine the... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 28, 2017 The Mooch, the Donald, and the Goldmanization of Government Donald Trump’s White House seems more like a Quentin Tarantino movie every day. Amid allegations of broken laws and self-dealing at the highest levels, the president has now hired a Communications Director called “The Mooch.” The name brings to mind the famous “ Mr. Pink ” scene from Reservoir Dogs... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 25, 2017 If Hell Had a Budget: The GOP Breaks the Ten Commandments A heat wave gripped Washington D.C. last week, its bright sun delineating each building’s sharp corners with Edward Hopper-like clarity. Commuters waited listlessly for trains and buses, fixed in their moments of misery like flies in amber. If the city seemed like Hell, the resemblance was only... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Medicare For All Is Coming, No Matter What They Say The idea of Medicare for All, or single-payer health care, has grown in popularity so quickly that it was recently an answer on the quiz show Jeopardy: More than half of all Americans, 53 percent, now want a single-payer plan, up from 40 percent in 1998-2000. But at the same time, Medicare for All... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 07, 2017 There’s a Big Hole in the Center of the Democratic Party “I mean, have you seen the other guys?” That’s one of the slogans that was recently proposed by Democratic Party strategists, presumably in a lighthearted way. But the joke, if that’s what it was, reflects an underlying belief among party leaders that Democrats’ best bet is to stand in contrast to... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 05, 2017 Why We Need to Know What Trump Says Behind Closed Doors When I’m not writing for OurFuture, I host a weekly news and opinion program on syndicated radio and cable TV called The Zero Hour . My team there recently faced a major challenge when we received a secret recording of Donald Trump’s remarks to a closed-door, $35,000-a-head fundraiser. We decided... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 23, 2017 GOP 'Health' Bill: Death, Disaster, and Gilded Age Greed The Republican Senate’s draft health bill differs from the House version, but its basic purpose is the same: give millionaires and billionaires a massive new tax cut by slashing health benefits for millions of Americans, and take care away altogether from millions more. "The Republicans want to... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 16, 2017 Resistance in a Time of Gunfire The smell of gun smoke had net yet lifted from an Alexandria baseball field when the calls for unity began. “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan. “You’re going to hear me say something you’ve never heard me say before,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi... Read more |