& New Jersey, Montana . . .

The deal capped months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves.

It’s not dead; it’s just resting.

It’s not dead; it’s just resting.

Several of the party’s top committees threatened to raise legal hell over a new study into the way they pry money out of seniors.

The call for benefit cuts is getting boosted again.

Cao, who was the GOP nominee against Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton in 2022, also said he was "African-American because I grew up in Africa too."

The call for benefit cuts is getting boosted again.

Several of the party’s top committees threatened to raise legal hell over a new study into the way they pry money out of seniors.

Avoid deal-breakers and observe the K.I.S.S. principle

The MaxSpeak Gospel of Wealth

Social Security’s funding problem is driven by decades of upward income redistribution, not demographics or overly generous benefits.

Down Mexico way . . .

Down Mexico way . . .

Federal ownership of the Means of Production under Trump

"It's harder to find a good coffee table than it is to fall in love."

Trump has shattered American power, and Beijing is picking up the pieces

This bit from Jacobin founder and all-around maven Bhaskar Sunkara is making the rounds.

Politics, Doom, Trivia. Click to read "MaxSpeak, You Listen!", by Max B. Sawicky, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Workers deserve better

""I would vote for a comatose Democrat before I would vote for Susan Collins . . . " --Maine resident

"[T]he goal is nothing, the movement everything . . . " — Edouard Bernstein, 1899

Democratic socialists like AOC and Zohran Mamdani have made inroads in some cities. Republicans call them communists but the ideologies differ.

Democratic socialists like AOC and Zohran Mamdani have made inroads in some cities. Republicans call them communists but the ideologies differ.

"[T]he goal is nothing, the movement everything . . . " — Edouard Bernstein, 1899

Academics call for a moratorium on Venezuelan debt, and urge the IMF to restore Caracas’ access to the Fund: ‘The emergency is human before it is political’

Much excitement—of very different types—has followed the electoral victories in New York City and elsewhere of folks describing themselves as “democratic socialists.” Truth is, there are multiple defi...

On the “Self-soothing” Politics of Fear and Rage

Including gabagool

La lotta continua

La lotta continua

New Medicaid work requirement rules could remove eligible people from coverage through red tape, but states may be able to limit the damage.

And stuff we learned in Kindergarten

Don't call it a surrender

And stuff we learned in Kindergarten

New Medicaid work requirement rules could remove eligible people from coverage through red tape, but states may be able to limit the damage.

"She knows there’s no success like failure and failure is no success at all.” Bob Dylan, "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" (1965)

I wish people would stop trying to make partisan hay about the rise in inflation.

When 30 States Raised Minimum Wages, What Happened to Pay and Jobs?