Search Results: very obscenely rich

Should billionaires exist? 

By John Stoehr / April 11, 2022 /

Let’s answer that question before talking about “their fair share.”

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Ginni Thomas is above the law

By John Stoehr / March 18, 2022 /

When elites are untouchable, democracy isn’t all that.  

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Sanctioning Putin’s oligarchs isn’t going to hurt them much as long as the United States is a great place to hide their filthy fortunes

By John Stoehr / March 9, 2022 /

Making our financial system more transparent, and enforcing existing law, should be part of America’s role in sanctioning Russia.

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‘Do we want to live in a world where Putin calls the shots?’

By John Stoehr / February 16, 2022 /

Patriots say no. Rightwingers say maybe.

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The day a vice president accused ‘several million’ Americans of being fascists

By John Stoehr / February 3, 2022 /

Henry Wallace pulled no punches.

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Has the press corps learned nothing?

By John Stoehr / November 8, 2021 /

Journalism, when done right, should change a person.

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Anti-tax is anti-democracy

By John Stoehr / October 28, 2021 /

Joe Manchin has one foot in two worlds.

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Why does a democratic republic founded in opposition to monarchy tolerate billionaires?

By John Stoehr / October 22, 2021 /

They are never self-made.

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Whatever Joe Biden and the Democrats decide will be the best outcome democracy can produce while being sabotaged

By John Stoehr / October 13, 2021 /

Cut these Democrats some slack.

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How the right wing uses the Constitution and the Supreme Court to squeeze liberty out of Americans they don’t like

By John Stoehr / October 7, 2021 /

The right to harass, intimidate and threaten whomever they want.

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