Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann (thom at thomhartmann.com) is a Project Censored Award-winning New York Times best-selling author, and host of a nationally syndicated daily progressive talk program The Thom Hartmann Show. www.thomhartmann.com His most recent books are Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country and an updated edition of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back." Previous books include: Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture," "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight," "We The People: A Call To Take Back America," "What Would Jefferson Do?," "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It," and "Cracking The Code: The Art and Science of Political Persuasion." He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.
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Views Wednesday, October 17, 2018 The Fascists Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare The billionaire fascists are coming for your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And they’re openly bragging about it. Right after Trump’s election, back in December of 2016, Newt Gingrich openly bragged at the Heritage Foundation that the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress were... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 20, 2018 Alexander Hamilton Was Preoccupied with the Threat That a Presidency Like Trump’s Posed for America Presidential economic adviser Larry Kudlow suggested to the Economic Club of New York that, after the elections, Republicans will target “spending” on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid with “reforms” (cuts) to help pay for the massive deficits created by Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax cut for... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 10, 2018 The Ongoing Kaepernick Controversy Shows Much of White America Is Still in 'Slave Patrol' Mode The slave patrols live. Just ask any of the people at Nike who answer the phones and are dealing with an avalanche of angry white callers throwing the N-word around and complaining about Nike treating Kaepernick with respect. Trump, Pence, and billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News are ginning up... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Trump Is in Major Legal and Political Trouble—His Desperate Attempts to Escape It Could Lead America to Catastrophe Is it now time to imagine how far Trump and his Republican cronies in Congress might be able to push things? And how we, as Americans, might respond? This isn’t the first time such a question has been raised. A bit more than a week before the election of 2016—a week before Trump won the election—... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 25, 2018 Trump Simply Can’t Pull Anything Off—Even His Most Nefarious Plots Trump just can’t get things done, and we need to stop having conversations predicated on the assumption that maybe he can. His dangerous incompetence is currently risking war in the Middle East and Asia, while pitting American against American in ways we haven’t seen in this country since the days... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 20, 2018 There Are 3 Main Theories That Explain Trump’s Approach to Putin and Russia—Which One Makes the Most Sense? There are three general theories to explain Trump’s behavior toward Russia (and other hard-right broadly autocratic regimes), and for unknown reasons the two most likely ones are almost entirely absent from our electronic media. The three theories, in ascending order of likelihood, are: The... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 30, 2018 Fascists Compete To Own America Given how reactive hard right snowflakes have gotten in response to a few truth-based jokes from Michelle Wolf , and that Mick Mulvaney has confessed to running a pay-for-play operation out of his congressional office , and Trump is daily breaking the Constitution’s emoluments clause , now might be... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Why Surprising Numbers of Republicans Vote for Bernie Sanders Ann Coulter knows who she wants to be the Democratic nominee for president, and who that person is, well, it may surprise you . She wants Hillary Clinton to be the nominee, and thinks that if Bernie gets the nod, he'll beat whoever the Republicans come up with to run against him. You won't hear me... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Healthcare: Let's Have People Over Profits Once And For All There are some things in this world that shouldn’t be turned into profit-making machines, and healthcare is definitely one of them. Believe it or not, there was a time in America when in almost every state health insurance companies and hospitals were required to be non-profits. Back then,... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 17, 2014 The TPP – The More We Know, The Worse It Gets We already knew that the Trans Pacific Partnership is a threat to our jobs, our civil rights, and our national sovereignty, and now we know it's also a danger to our environment. On Wednesday, Wikileaks published a leaked version of the environmental chapter of the TPP, and it's just another example of putting corporate power ahead of public interest. Read more |