Author: Thom Hartmann

Over on Fox “News,” a recent segment with Tucker Carlson suggested that vaccines are more dangerous than getting COVID. Why do conservatives fall for this kind of nonsense? Multiple recent studies show that Republicans are as much as 8.5 times more likely to both believe and share fake or false “news” with others than are Democrats. The phenomenon is obvious, actually: while as many as half of Republicans believe the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump, there is no similarly disprovable “big lie” embraced by Democrats. And it is not limited to things like elections that are overtly political:...

Trump unleashed what has become a million U.S. COVID deaths, a war in Ukraine, and an attempted coup against the United States, all while coarsening our politics and ratcheting up hate. And now racist, rightwing politicians who disdain democracy are imitating him all across the nation. What is the impact of all this on America and Americans, and when will he be held to account? Five years ago, Donald Trump broke the law and outed an Israeli spy who’d embedded himself into ISIS. Trump gave the code-word-classified-Top-Secret intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, when he and Russian Ambassador...

A bit over 40 years ago the UK and the United States, followed within a few years by most of the rest of western Europe, embarked on a radical experiment in governance and economics. “Neoliberalism” was the word invented by a small group of utopian economists at a 1938 meeting in France, and it was turned into a movement at a 1947 meeting in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland. At that time the world had been shaken by the rise of Communism in the Soviet Union (and China) and the disaster Fascism brought to Germany and then all of Europe. The...

Hunter Biden traded on his father’s name to get positions on boards of directors that paid him millions, but there is no evidence he ever harmed American foreign policy or American interests. Jared Kushner, though, appears to have been paid $2 billion by the Saudis for steering his father-in-law’s administration away from the Khashoggi murder and toward millions in congressionally banned weaponry to further destroy Yemen. Now the Saudis, apparently still collaborating with the Trump family, are refusing to increase oil production so that high prices at the pump will politically damage President Biden and Democrats in the elections...