by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 14, 2021 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Opinion | Warren Buffett and the Myth of the ‘Good Billionaire’ Warren Buffett appears to be the safest kind of billionaire: the good kind. Mr. Buffett is neither Zuckerbergian messiah nor Musky provocateur, neither Bezosist space cadet nor Sacklerian...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 14, 2021 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
The quote is from this Atlantic article… The Last Days of the President After leaving the presidency in 1969, Lyndon Johnson lived out the remaining four years of his life in retirement. One of his former speechwriters recounts how he spent it. On the night...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 14, 2021 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Opinion | What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor I’m not going to pretend that I know how to interpret the jobs and inflation data of the past few months. My view is that this is still an economy warped by the pandemic, and that the dynamics are...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 3, 2021 | • Politics
Clinton’s Responsibility In 1992, when Bill Clinton announced that he planned to “end welfare as we know it,” he was taking up a unique position for a Democrat. The party of Lyndon Johnson typically had to fight hard to preserve the country’s...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 2, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump
…By failing to properly inform the American public of the true nature of Donald John Trump, our media, our intelligence services, and our FBI allowed a Russian asset to take the White House. Those three institutions failed, catastrophically, and their combined...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 9, 2021 | • Politics, Donald Trump
‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. President Donald Trump has repeatedly distanced himself from acts of violence in communities across America, dismissing critics who...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 27, 2020 | • Politics, Democracy, Donald Trump
A basic fact about Trump is now clear | Column The behavior and rhetoric of Donald Trump and his most ardent partisans since he was defeated for re-election have brought into sharp focus a fact that has lurked in the background since the day he became a candidate in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 25, 2020 | • Politics
Fox Geezer Syndrome | The American Conservative A reader sent me an e-mail about the Rush Limbaugh caller who, near tears, said he was prepared to die for Donald Trump. I wrote about the guy here, and offered a reader’s thesis that the caller was a man who had...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 14, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Washington, DC, rally brings together Trump voters and far-right leaders Thousands President Donald Trump’s supporters of all stripes, including right wing and far right groups, rallied in Washington, DC, on Saturday to protest the election...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 29, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The Winners of Trump’s Washington This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ‘s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. A collaboration with WNYC’s Trump, Inc. podcast. On April 30, 2018, nine top executives...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 27, 2020 | • Politics, Joe Biden
Opinion | ‘Moderate’ Joe Biden has become the most progressive nominee in history Joe Biden, on a pilgrimage Tuesday to the place where Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, promised a new birth of the New Deal. The former vice president took the fight to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 22, 2020 | • Politics
How the right-wing convinces itself that liberals are evil United Press/Library of Congress; Gage Skidmore; Gage Skidmore If you spend any time consuming right-wing media in America, you quickly learn the following: Liberals are responsible for racism, slavery, and...
