Bob Lucore

The Washington Post Says We Should Stop Paying Interest on Government Bonds Because It All Goes to the Rich Of course, Jeff Bezos opinion section didn’t advocate a measure that would hurt his rich friends, it gave a version this absurd argument as a reason to get rid of Social Security.

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Public Option Everything Cheaper. Better. Local. Ours.

Public Option Everything
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Four lessons from four years of Russia’s invasion The world has become accustomed to terror, believes in ritual negotiations and hopes that time will solve everything. But illusions do not stop war

Four years. This is a good article from the think tank of the German Social Democratic Party.

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We’re On the Brink of War With no rationale or explanation as to why

Dan Rather made me feel gloomy. But it is important.

We’re On the Brink of War
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Tribune for Race and Class - The American Prospect Jesse Jackson, who died today at age 84, advanced perspectives and interests that were effectively democratic socialist.

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ICE's Youngest Prisoner Two-month-old Juan Nicolás has spent half his life inside America’s largest family detention center. When he got sick, the doctor was gone.

ICE's Youngest Prisoner
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Gen Z’s Problem with “Fake” News Gen Z’s Problem with “Fake” News.

News literacy skills needed…
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The Best Metaphor for the Moment We Are In We have to help each other survive and prosper

The Best Metaphor for the Moment We Are In
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Roz & David Litman: How Two Pittsburgh Lawyers Brought My First Basketball Hero Home Connie Hawkins’s path back to NBA eligibility ran through Pittsburgh, where attorneys Roslyn (“Roz”) Litman and S.

Roz & David Litman: How Two Pittsburgh Lawyers Brought My First Basketball Hero Home
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RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

Oren Cass Uses Good Economics in Attacking Finance in NYT Why aren't all economists bothered by the massive waste in the sector?

Oren Cass Uses Good Economics in Attacking Finance in NYT
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RIP: The Washington Post (1933-2026) A newspaper is more than the sum of its editorials and its mistakes.

RIP: The Washington Post (1933-2026)
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Justifying High Drug Prices: The Bozos Who Run Jeff Bezos’ Opinion Page In the free market Bezos claims to like, drugs are cheap

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Trump is pushing to include risky assets like crypto and private equity in 401(k)s: Why this endangers retirement savers and the economy Key takeaways  President Trump has veered away from the path that previous administrations have taken on 401(k) and other retirement plans. Instead of protecting the millions of workers with retiremen...

Trump is pushing to include risky assets like crypto and private equity in 401(k)s: Why this endangers retirement savers and the economy www.epi.org/publication/...

The Means-Testing Industrial Complex The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor

The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
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The War of Southern Aggression The MAGA reconstruction of the North is well underway

The War of Southern Aggression
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How Trump Doomed the American Auto Industry - The American Prospect Ford and GM made a big bet on electrification. Then Trump plunged a knife into their backs.

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How did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist? A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all

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47 ways Trump has made life less affordable in the last year In the first year of his second term, President Trump has actively made life less affordable for working people. Affordability has two sides—prices and pay. While public debate fixates on rising costs...

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Mark Ruffalo (@markruffalo) avoid these companies, they are now acting as the pillars of Trump’s cruel and unusual anti American policies.

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“Will Social Security Run Out?” Is the Wrong Question: How Lawmakers Can Protect Beneficiaries and Strengthen OASI Is Social Security really in crisis? This report examines the OASI Trust Fund, lessons from 1983, and policy options to secure benefits for the future.

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President Trump Proposes Codifying MFN Drug Pricing Deals But Key Details Are Missing While codifying most-favored-nation drug pricing could be helpful for bringing more transparency to these arrangements and guaranteeing that drug companies will deliver on what they’ve promised, polic...

KFF sums up what we know about Trump's so-called healthcare "plan." There is nothing much there. It is hard to even call it concepts of a plan.
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Elizabeth Warren Spells Out The Fight We Have To Have The Democratic Party is unified on the urgency of stopping Trump and on “affordability”, but there are some fights we have to have inside our party

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The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.

Read this one…
Political pragmatism is not about fighting only the battles you expect to win. It is the refusal to let probable failure dictate what you attempt. This is the (Francis) Perkins disposition.

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Whether It Is ICE or Local Police, the U.S. Has Normalised Anti-Democratic Law Enforcement Practices The Grotesque Excesses of ICE Sit Within the Broader Context of Police Brutality

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Thousands of New York City nurses set to strike amid contract disputes Nearly 16,000 nurses to join union-led strike on Monday to demand large hospitals across NYC ‘put patients over profit’

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Thousands of New York City nurses set to strike amid contract disputes

2025 was the worst year for hiring since 2020, December jobs report shows The U.S. added 50,000 jobs last month, a mixed report capping off a difficult year for the labor market.

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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

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Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.

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An Open Letter to Richard Grenell The nonprofit arts were built to do what the market cannot. Confusing that with failure puts our cultural infrastructure at risk.

An Open Letter to Richard Grenell
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