Tens of millions of Americans are cashless, many desperate to feed their children. Meanwhile the richest Americans merrily float on a rapidly rising tide of money thanks mainly to Trump & Co. My analysis of Federal Reserve data shows a record flow of greenbacks let the corporate rich pour trillions of dollars into their accounts as they fired tens of millions. Now that money just sits, idle. How can it be that as want ravages cash-starved Americans, money wealth rises for the already rich...

A Trump lackey took a major step Thursday toward establishing a Trump dictatorship. The Justice Department moved to drop the criminal case against confessed felon Michael Flynn. He's the retired Army general and secret foreign agent who was Trump's first national security adviser. An extraordinary court filing demonstrated that Trump has one standard of justice for his enemies and an entirely different one for his allies. The court action shows how fully Trump has turned our Justice...

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At workers — chambermaids, wait staff, bartenders and others — are foreign workers. They can be fired, forcing them to immediately leave the country. This imbalance of power ensures the foreign staff are almost certain to submit to hostile work conditions. In turn, that gives Trump and his managers tremendous control over these workers.

Now is the moment for elected Republicans held hostage by Donald Trump to break free. The political gun he has held to their heads, threatening to end their careers unless they cravenly bowed down, is out of bullets. Trump's own polls show that Joe Biden will trounce him. Behind closed doors in his classic privileged-boy style Trump shouted at his own campaign staff as if it's their fault. Scaredy-cat Republicans who made a pretense of respecting Trump for the last four years now face the...