At the start of 2025, Forbes magazine identified 902 billionaires in the U.S., overwhelmingly men. (April 1) While billionaires have always held influence over the machinations of the U.S. government, Donald Trump’s second election and the rise to power and influence of unelected Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, has made opposing billionaires…
WASHINGTON — Google the name “Tallulah Bankhead” and you will be regaled (or mortified if your mores tend to the Victorian) with tales of the actor’s libertine appetites, her breakout performance in the Hitchcock classic Lifeboat, or her half-camp, half-vamp villainess in the 1960s Batman television series. Wikipedia references her patrician mien — dahling not…
Ten days before American student outrage over gun violence triggered multitudes across the U.S and around the world to join in “March For Our Lives” protests; many US high school educators and other adults provided students with strident lessons in assholelisity. During the March 14, 2018 National School Walkout Day staged by students to show…
At the start of 2025, Forbes magazine identified 902 billionaires in the U.S., overwhelmingly men. (April 1) While billionaires have always held influence over the machinations of the U.S. government, Donald Trump’s second election and the rise to power and influence of unelected Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, has made opposing billionaires…
Home » Workers World Party » Join Workers World Party’s Telegram channel for daily updates on the struggle Workers World Party invites you to join our Telegram channel (t.me/WorkersWorldParty). The channel provides its subscribers with Marxist-Leninist analysis of current and historical events and trends, both domestic and international, party statements, reading recommendations and more. Join…
April 7 Since April 2, the U.S. stock market has lost $6.6 trillion in value. The Dow Jones has fallen 3,910 points — the worst loss since the start of the March 2020 COVID-19 pandemic — and the S&P 500 dropped 6%. Losses continued April 7 with the Dow dropping another 349 points. Stock markets…
