Oligarchy Has Arrived in America

Let’s remember that each of the country’s four wealthiest Americans — Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Ellison — controls at least one major media outlet or social media platform. Let’s also remember that Musk, nearly immediately upon Trump taking office, began making unilateral decisions that are leading to the firing of tens of thousands of federal…

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Facing Trump’s America

Image by Tim Dennell. Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender. One-hundred-and-one-year-old Colonel James H. Harvey, one of the last of the famed Tuskegee airmen of World War II, blamed…

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