Lawrence O’Donnell is an American political analyst, journalist, actor, producer, writer, and host of The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, a weeknight MSNBC opinion
Author: Madonna Gauding
Madonna Gauding is a freelance writer, illustrator and book designer living in St. Louis. MO. She is the author of 10 books on a variety of "mind, body, spirit" topics.
“One Term More”
The Broadway community offers up a parody of Les Miserables in support of Barack Obama’s reelection. Feel free to sing along with David Burnham (“Wicked”),
The fight to raise the minimum wage
Political discourse in corporate controlled Washington DC is silent on the plight of the working poor. Big business, corporate profits and the minimum wage
GOP middle class bamboozlement may be over
Instead of offering real solutions to social and economic problems, the GOP has used flag waving, gay bashing, abortion, prayer in schools, death panels,
Democratic Party to take moral stand in support of gay marriage
In unanimous decision on July 29, the drafting committee for the Democratic National Convention embraced marriage equality as part of the platform for the
Bill Mckibben: “Global warming’s terrifying new math”
If you want to know where we stand with global warming, read Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking new piece in Rolling Stone, “Global Warming’s Terryifying New
Wealth doesn’t trickle down when it’s parked in off shore tax havens
A new study by the Tax Justice Network “The Price of Offshore Revisited” shines a light on the size of the global offshore economy—the amount of
Picasso’s Guernica and the horrors of war: 75 years later
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the
Obama calls for tax fairness
On Monday, July 9, President Obama urged Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts for those who make under $250,000 for one year and
Russ Feingold: Supreme Court is arm of corporate America
What they have clearly become is a partisan arm of corporate America. This is a real serious problem for our democracy. It’s essentially a