Felix Salmon

5/17/17

Give Non-Citizens the Vote!

The good folks at NewsBusters are very upset that immigration activist José Antonio Vargas and I favor enfranchising…

4/26/17

Trump's Tax Plan Is a Straight Up Multibillion-Dollar Gift to the Rich

It’s taken nearly 100 days, but Donald Trump has finally found a tax proposal he can get behind. And as befits his…

4/21/17

Activist Jane Jacobs Won Historic Battles. How Did She Lose the War?

If you’ve ever thought positively about concepts like walkability, density, and street life, then you owe Jane…

4/12/17

Education, Health Care, Debt: Welcome to Our Crowdfunded Dystopia

At the beginning of this year, a for-profit company, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital,…

4/7/17

How Not To Invest $1 Billion in Diversity and Inclusion

The Ford Foundation made headlines this week with a grand announcement: It was going to “unleash the power” of its…

4/4/17

This Staggering Chart Reveals the Reality of Black-Owned Banks

JPMorgan Chase just released its annual report, showing 2016 profits of $24.7 billion (that’s almost half a billion…

3/21/17

Villains, antiheroes, and dystopia: How Hollywood's blockbusters helped me understand Trump

Just what is it that makes today’s president so different, so appealing? (To his supporters, anyway.) Donald Trump…

3/14/17

How to bribe Trump's White House

You get a job in the White House, which means you're going to be a powerful and influential individual. Lots of…

3/7/17

Jason Chaffetz should never make any decisions for working class people

Jason Chaffetz, the Congressman who was memorably described by Stephen Colbert as a "seductive beaver," is rightly re…

2/24/17

Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is a gift to violent criminals

America was recently faced with the unedifying spectacle of an undocumented victim of domestic abuse being arrested…

2/22/17

This billionaire's letter eviscerates the Trump agenda

You probably have better things to do than read annual letters from large charitable foundations. But I’d urge you…

2/14/17

America's CEOs are acting like total cowards when it comes to Donald Trump

When it comes to Donald Trump, only one course of action makes sense: resistance. Opposing the president is no…

2/9/17

This GOP bill is the perfect example of robbing the poor to pay the rich

The Trump administration regularly takes aim at the poorest and weakest members of society, especially those who…

2/2/17

Impartiality or diversity. Pick one.

Every media company claims to value diversity in its newsroom; most of them also lay claim to some kind of…

1/28/17

With 153 words, Donald Trump just destroyed the American promise

With a single, 153-word sentence, Donald Trump has managed to transform the United States from a beacon of liberty…

1/18/17

How the middle class beat the world's billionaires

If 2016 was the year that the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland was revealed to be a failure, then…

1/17/17

The toothless global elite have surrendered to Trump’s slick ambassador

Anthony Scaramucci is in his favorite place: the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It’s where he built up…

1/16/17

Why so few world leaders showed up at the most elite conference of them all

Just as the art of listening to music is all about paying attention to the silence between the notes, the meaning of…

1/15/17

What Oxfam's misleading stat gets wrong about inequality

Every year, Oxfam adds up the wealth of the world’s poor, compares it to the wealth of the world’s ultra-rich, and…

12/16/16

Why the world’s elite won’t lift a finger to stop Trump

Maybe we should call it the Craven Caravan of Corporate Capitulation and Collaboration; Donald Trump seems to prefer…

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