Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America and more than 25 other books in print. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.
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Views Wednesday, October 30, 2019 A Democracy-Killing Duo: How the Supreme Court and the Morbidly Rich Are Ruining Democracy in America People being killed by wildfires in California and people dying because they can’t afford their insulin are the same thing. Both represent the capture of government by corporations—in other words, both are symptoms of democracy in the United States being replaced by a corporate state with little... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 21, 2019 Is War on the Menu for 2020 Elections? We complain that democracy is under assault from Donald Trump, but he’s just a cog in a much larger worldwide machine that is tearing down democratic self-governance. Purely to enhance profits, the transnational corporate community literally works every day to more deeply intertwine our economic,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 02, 2019 If We Want US Democracy Back, We Must Undo Attack on Middle Class Launched by Reagan The destruction of the middle class is destroying democracies and paving the way for authoritarian rule. In 2016, Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk published a paper in the Journal of Democracy showing how, in the era since Reagan led America out of classical economic policy and into... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 17, 2019 The Big American Bribery Scandal Isn't Felicity Huffman's $15,000 The American media world—both social media and "news" media—is afire with the news that actor Felicity Huffman is going to jail for spending $15,000 to bribe her daughter’s way into college. But a much bigger bribery scandal is played out every day in America with nary a peep from the media. It’s... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 10, 2019 To Save the Republic, Some of Trump’s Allies and Appointees Will Have to Face Federal Prosecution To save our republic, some of Trump’s enablers and political appointees may have to go to jail, just like happened with Nixon’s people. Trump’s policies are inflicting massive damage on the working class, the environment, minorities, and our economy. And the damage he’s doing to our body politic... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 13, 2019 The Right-Wing American Love Affair With One of the Most Disturbing Serial Killers There’s a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP’s willingness to embrace a sociopathic president like Trump. That link runs through the work of Ayn Rand. When Donald Trump was running for the GOP nomination, he told USA Today ’s Kirsten Powers that Ayn Rand’s raped-girl-... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 05, 2019 The Latest Massacre Shows the Second Amendment Model of ‘Slave Patrols’ Is Still in Effect While, in the wake of the El Paso murders, the media and most of our politicians are acting shocked—“shocked, I tell you!”—that there are armed racists in America who are trying to terrify people of color, the reality is that it’s pretty much always been that way here in the United States. And... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 17, 2019 How a Trojan Horse Project to Rewrite Our Constitution Could Actually Happen if Trump Wins in 2020 It’s often said that if Trump is reelected, it’ll be the end of democracy in America. But how could Trump get reelected, and how could democracy get wiped out in the USA? Turns out, there’s an actual project to rewrite our Constitution, turning America into a corporate-run oligarchy. They’d end the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 09, 2019 Trump and GOP Are Blatantly Encouraging Foreign Dictators to Hack the 2020 Election It looks like Donald Trump and the leadership of the GOP are encouraging other countries to hack our upcoming 2020 election. Donald Trump is sucking up to dictators, strongman oligarchs, and autocrats around the world , while Mitch McConnell is using political brute force to prevent individual... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Can Donald Trump Hold Off an Economic Crash Until the Election? 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. Back in 2007 and early 2008, many of us were convinced that an economic crash was... Read more |