Author: Brad Friedman

It may be true, as they say, that everything is bigger in Texas—even the hypocrisy of the state’s elected Republican officials. It is so big that exposing these two-faced scoundrels in a single HUSTLER column will de difficult. But saddle up, pardner. I’m gonna try. The voters of Denton, Texas—the vast majority of them registered...

“We have got to stop sending jobs overseas,” the somewhat loony Ross Perot presciently warned back in 1992. The third-party Presidential candidate was bashing the then-pending North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) before most Americans had a clue what he was talking about. They still don’t.  “[It’s] pretty simple,” Perot explained during a debate with...

When the U.S. Supreme Court, in the now-infamous Citizens United case, ruled that corporations, associations and labor unions may spend as much as they’d like to influence (buy!) elections, it helped blow the wheels off of whatever was left of our democracy. CQ Roll Call’s Eliza Newlin Carney, one of the few journalists focusing on...