by Paul Szep
How to get ahead on Capitol Hill: Use a leadership PAC to buy power
I’m in my second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. I’m a Republocrat. I like the job. It pays $174,000, has great medical benefits, provides a really nice private gym to […]
The 2011 Climate B.S.* of the Year Awards (corrected)
Peter H. Gleick collects the five most outrageous examples of climate BS (Bad Science) from 2011, with several runners-up. Number one? All the Republican presidential candidates.
For sale: one democracy, slightly used…
by Paul Szep
Extinct species (by Paul Szep)
by Paul Szep
Mobs of unemployed … (by Paul Szep)
End poverty. Attack it. Now.
You know someone who lives in poverty. You may not realize it, but you do. Given that one of every six Americans lives in poverty, someone you know suffers from one of […]
The tax break that didn't create jobs, and now corporations want another one
Imagine corporations telling you they want to create American jobs in exchange for a tax break. Thanks to a compliant Congress, they get a cheap rate on billions of dollars of profits […]
'Oh, Congress! Oh, Congress! God mend thine ev'ry flaw'
When the national anthem is sung, I place my hand over my heart. I didn’t always. But I’m old enough now to appreciate, to be grateful for, what being an American citizen […]
Reinventing ourselves again
Look! Up in the sky, it’s a bird … it’s a plane. Nope, it’s Super Congress. Where caped, congressional crusaders will wage the battle between good and evil far above the heads […]
