Publisher's Statement

As citizens around the world suffer from rampant, runaway inflation and ever-increasing costs of living, some corporate honchos and Federal Reserve officials have pointed to a small rise in overall compensation to American workers as the problem. These are the selfish, hypocritical voices of oligarchy. It’s been well established that “real wages” for American...

The once unthinkable has happened: The conservative cabal on the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, and many states’ trigger laws now make it unlawful or impossible for women to get a legal abortion. Eight states have even banned the abortion pill mifepristone. Only 13% of Americans wanted to see Roe overturned, according...

Gun violence has exploded with a vengeance in tandem with our growing anxieties over the global pandemic. The horrific mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, in May dominated the headlines, but the incredible 17 subsequent mass shootings through Memorial Day weekend garnered less attention. In fact, by the end of May,...

HUSTLER Magazine is celebrating 48 wonderful years and the positive growth we’ve seen in the XXX industry through these years. Adult entertainment has matured to new heights of professionalism. Today’s performers take pride in their brand and control of their careers. They connect with fans and create and market their own content. We are...

It’s long been a truism that Americans vote their pocketbooks over most other issues. That’s why recent polls show inflation as the number-one concern for a majority of us. At over 7%, inflation is eating into all of our budgets and making life especially hard for those on a limited income. There are many...

With the exception of China and a few other outliers, the whole world has condemned Vladimir Putin’s horrific illegal invasion of Ukraine and imposed the most severe economic sanctions ever levied against a rogue nation. The Russian people, many of whom have protested against the war and been arrested, will surely suffer more than...

Several senators have reintroduced a bill (defeated in 2020 after huge opposition) to turn the U.S. into a mass surveillance state like China. Ostensibly designed to fish out CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) on the internet, The EARN IT (Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies) Act, “doesn’t target Big Tech,” states Joe...

President Biden is urging all Americans to support the Democrats’ new voting rights package before Congress, including the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. These measures are critical to counter the flood of voting suppression laws enacted by Republicans in 19 states this past year. One such law even...

As we discussed in the December 2021 Publisher’s Statement, our ultraconservative Supreme Court recently upheld the draconian Texas law that outlaws most abortions after a “fetal heartbeat” is detected (at about six weeks). The law allows private citizens with no legal standing—meaning no personal interests involved—to sue any doctor or individual who participates in...

The latest attempt to do something serious about climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow was a mixed success. Some progress was made, including nearly 200 countries adopting the Glasgow Climate Pact, but given the increasingly dire nature of the problem, it wasn’t nearly enough. On the positive side,...

Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies are all the rage now, with investors large and small around the world playing the game. Some have made fortunes. The foresight to buy ten Bitcoins in 2009, when they were selling for $1 each, would yield the tidy sum of approximately $600,000 today. There are currently hundreds of...

Texas recently trumped other red states in the race to pass the most restrictive abortion law in the country. It’s a “fetal heartbeat” law, meaning that as soon as an ultrasound can detect cardiac activity in a human embryo (not yet a fetus), usually at around six weeks, it is illegal to abort in...

Numerous politicians and pundits have loudly criticized the President’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. But even after seeing all of the chaotic scenes from Kabul, over 60% of Americans approve of the withdrawal and say the war was not worth the costs. After 20 stormy years of marriage, it was a messy divorce,...

Progressive Democrats in Congress are pushing to include funding for a new Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) in the infrastructure bill being thrashed out by Congress as I write. A CCC could create 1.5 million new jobs over the next five years for people still suffering from unemployment and underemployment due to the COVID pandemic,...

The massive tax giveaway passed by the previous Republican Administration has turned out to be an even bigger gift to the ultrarich than expected. That bill lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to a paltry 21%. Part of the argument for such a drastic reduction was that loopholes for tax evasion would be...