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Do cutting taxes for the wealthy really lead to economic investment? Does that money really trickle down to the rest of us? Or is it all just one big con for the wealthy to further enrich themselves? Find out the facts in The Truth About... Trickle Down Economics. SOURCES: TEAR DOWN THIS MYTH by Will Bunch THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD by William KleinknechtTHE SYSTEM: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich WHO STOLE THE AMERICAN DREAM? by Hedrick Smith CORPORATE BULLSHIT: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths that Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America by Nick Hanauer, Joan Walsh & Donald Cohen MAKERS AND TAKERS by Rana Foroohar HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS by Jason Stanley CHAIN REACTION: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM by Benjamin M. Friedman A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1492-present by Howard Zinn OK BOOMER, Let's Talk by Jill Filipovic RECONSIDERING REAGAN: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump by Daniel S. Lucks SCREWED: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It. by Thom Hartmann THE CRASH OF 2016 by Thom Hartmann THE BIG MYTH: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway SLINGING MUD: Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two Centuries of American Politics by Rosemarie Ostler WHY THE RIGHT WENT WRONG: Conservatism, from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond by E.J. Dionne, Jr. SMOKE AND MIRRORS: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum THE VANISHING MIDDLE CLASS: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy by Peter Temin THE TRIUMPH OF INJUSTICE: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman JUSTICE by Michael J. Sandel EVIL GENIUSES: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen STARTUP STATISTICS – The Numbers You Need to Know: https://smallbiztrends.com/startup-statistics/ TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN SANITY: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump by Allen Frances, MD Bartlett, Bruce. (2017, September 28). I helped create the GOP tax myth. Trump is wrong: Tax cuts don’t equal growth. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/28/i-helped-create-the-gop-tax-myth-trump-is-wrong-tax-cuts-dont-equal-growth/ Plumer, Brad. (2011, December 5). OECD: ‘The benefits of economic growth do not trickle down.’ The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/oecd-inequality-is-growing-almost-everywhere/2011/12/05/gIQAqSbqWO_blog.html TED TALK: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g #politics #history #economics #reaganomics #RonaldReagan #wealth #trickledowneconomics #voodooeconomics #supplysideeconomics #taxcuts #BruceBartlett #jobcreators #jobcreator #economicpolicy #taxrates #taxes #myths #misinformation #truth #economicgrowth #debt #credit #creditdebt #inequality #wealthinequality #wealthdisparity #georgehwbush #capitalgainstax #dividends #budgetdeficits #budgetdeficit #capitalgains #middleclass #upperclass #budgetcuts #socialmobility #upwardmobility #wealthy #jobgrowth #nickhanauer #tedtalk #newbusiness #newbusinesses #OECD #economicforum #trickledown #trickledownmyth #DepartmentofCommerce #raisetaxes #AllanWhincup #quirkbooks #SamuelCSpitale

Did you know that Trump had the worse jobs record of any president? Or that he was the first to be impeached on national security grounds? Or that the U.S. was ground zero for COVID deaths? We look back on these milestones and more in The Truth About...the Trump Presidency. SOURCES: THE AGE OF GRIEVANCE by Frank Bruni ALT-AMERICA: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump by David Neiwert ATTACK FROM WITHIN: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade AUDIENCE OF ONE: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik BATTLING THE BIG LIE: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer BETRAYAL: The Final Act of the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl THE BIG CHEAT: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family by David Cay Johnston BLOWBACK: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump by Miles Taylor COLLUSION: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding CONFIDENCE MAN: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman THE CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA by Stuart Stevens THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump’s America by Adam Serwer THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy Lee, MD THE DESPOT’S APPRENTICE: Donald Trump’s Attack on Democracy by Brian Klaas DEVIL’S BARGAIN: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising by Joshua Green THE DIVIDER: Trump in the White House by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser FEAR by Bob Woodward FIRE AND FURY by Michael Wolff THE DESTRUCTIONISTS: The 25-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party by Dana Milbank EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter HORSEMEN OF THE TRUMPOCALYPSE: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous Men in America by John Nichols I ALONE CAN FIX IT by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker IT WAS ALL A LIE: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK by David Cay Johnston INSURGENCY by Jeremy W. Peters LANDSLIDE by Michael Wolff THE MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP by David Cay Johnston PERIL by Bob Woodward PREPARING FOR WAR: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism by Bradley Onishi PROOF OF COLLUSION: How Trump Betrayed America by Seth Abramson PROOF OF CONSPIRACY: How Trump’s International Collusion is Threatening American Democracy by Seth Abramson PROOF OF CORRUPTION: Bribery, Impeachment, and Pandemic in the Age of Trump by Seth Abramson RAGE by Bob Woodward RED PILL, BLUE PILL by David Neiwert SIEGE by Michael Wolff STRONGMEN: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat THEY WANT TO KILL AMERICANS: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm Nance THIS WILL NOT PASS: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns TIRED OF WINNING by Jonathan Karl TRAITOR: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump by David Rothkopf TRUMPOCRACY by David Frum TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN SANITY: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump by Allen Frances, MD UNHOLY: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump by Sarah Posner UNMAKING THE PRESIDENCY by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes A VERY STABLE GENIUS by Philip Rucker THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY by Sarah Kendzior AFTER THE IVORY TOWER FALLS by Will Bunch ALL WE CAN SAVE by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson THE DEADLY RISE OF ANTI-SCIENCE by Peter J. Hotez HATELAND: A Long, Hard Look at America’s Extremist Heart by Daryl Johnson MONEYLAND: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World by Oliver Bullough HOW THE SOUTH WON THE CIVIL WAR by Heather Cox Richardson NETWORK OF LIES: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter THE RICHES OF THIS LAND by Jim Tankersley THEY KNEW: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior THE SYSTEM by Robert Reich THE TRIUMPH OF INJUSTICE by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel WHITE RURAL RAGE: The Threat to American Democracy by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman   #Trump #DonaldTrump #DonaldJTrump #history #politics #news #president #president2024 #presidents #trumppresidency @quirkbooks #AllanWhincup #truthandjustice #maga #criminal #draintheswamp #covid19 #covid #pandemic #unprecedented #truth #scotus #supremecourt #judiciary #trumpadministration #americanhistory #authoritarianism #propaganda #whitesupremacy #whitesupremacists #tribalism #politicalviolence #politicalnews #hatecrimes #democracy #altright #roevwade #corruption #coronavirus #indictments #conviction #economy #taxcuts #election #election2024

Is Fox News America's #1 news channel? Or state-run media masquerading as news? Find out the network's origin--and why it was created--in The Truth About... Fox News. SOURCES: THE FOX EFFECT by David Brock FOXOCRACY: Inside the Network’s Playbook of Tribal Warfare by Tobin Smith OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism by Alexandra Kitty HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter THE OUTRAGE INDUSTRY: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility by Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj THE REPUBLICAN BRAIN by Chris Mooney THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE by David Brock THE LOUDEST VOICE IN THE ROOM by Gabriel Sherman NETWORK PROPAGANDA: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts NETWORK OF LIES: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter WRONG: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young FANTASYLAND: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen POST-TRUTH by Lee McIntyre HATE, INC.: Why Today’s Media Makes us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi TALK RADIO’S AMERICA: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party that Took Over the United States by Brian Rosenwald HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior BANANA REPUBLICANS: How the Right Wing is Turning America into a One-Party State by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber OVER THE CLIFF: How Obama’s Election Drove the American Right Insane by John Amato and David Neiwert AMERICAN RULE: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People by Jared Yates Sexton AUDIENCE OF ONE: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik STATE OF CONFUSION: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind by Dr. Bryant Welch THE CONSTITUTION OF KNOWLEDGE: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch BATTLING THE BIG LIE: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer THE DESTRUCTIONISTS: The 25-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party by Dana Milbank Why Fox News Was Created: https://theweek.com/articles/880107/why-fox-news-created Nixon's Revenge: This Time, Republicans Are Ready to Fight Impeachment: https://theintercept.com/2019/09/28/impeachment-republicans-nixon-watergate/ On MSNBC’s All In, Angelo Carusone explains that Fox News’ effort to delegitimize Trump’s impeachment is why the network was built: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/msnbcs-all-angelo-carusone-explains-fox-news-effort-delegitimize-trumps-impeachment-why Historian Christopher Browning on the Trump regime: We're "close to the point of no return": https://www.salon.com/2018/10/18/historian-christopher-browning-on-the-trump-regime-were-close-to-the-point-of-no-return/ #fox #foxnews #foxnewschannel #foxnewssunday #foxnewslive #foxnewsalert #foxnewstoday #foxnewsprimetime #rogerailes #tucker #tuckercarlson #billoreilly #richardnixon #nixon #GOP #news #history #media #massmedia #propaganda #entertainmentnews #realitytv #quirkbooks #allanwhincup #samuelcspitale #misinformation #disinformation #cablenews #rupertmurdoch #lies #dominionvotingsystems #dominionvoting #journalism #impeachment #loudestvoiceintheroom #theloudestvoiceintheroom #gabrielsherman #christopherbrowing #adolfhitler #hitler #politics #hartfordcourant #cnn @foxnews @tuckercarlson #broadcastnews #information #education @mediamatters4america #mediamatters #kurtandersen #ministryofpropagnada

Juneteenth marks the day that the last African Americans were freed from slavery. But for many, their terror was just beginning, as the next 80 years saw more than 6,000 lynchings—not as secret acts of vigilantism, but as a grotesque public spectacle. Find out why these horrid acts were carried out--and by whom--in The Truth About… Lynching. WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF RACISM, VIOLENCE, TORTURE, AND DEATH. SOURCES: -CASTE: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson -THE 1619 PROJECT: A New Origin Story by Nikola Hannah Jones -WAGES OF REBELLION by Chris Hedges -AMERICAN IDOLATRY: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church by Andrew L. Whitehead -THE INJUSTICE OF PLACE: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America by Kathryn Edin -WHITE EVANGELICAL RACISM: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler -ON FASCISM: 12 Lessons from American History by Matthew C. MacWilliams -THE LONG SOUTHERN STRATEGY: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields -AMERICAN RULE: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People by Jared Yates Sexton -FAULT LINES IN THE CONSTITUTION: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson -THE SECOND: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson -HOW TO BE LESS STUPID ABOUT RACE by Crystal M. Fleming -WITHOUT SANCTUARY: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen, Hilton Als, Congress John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack -LYNCHING AND SPECTACLE: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood -100 Years of Lynching by Ralph Ginzburg -The Horrors of Lynching Photographs and Postcards by Howard Center for Investigative Journalism https://wordinblack.com/2022/01/the-horrors-of-lynching-photographs-and-postcards/ -Bad Faith documentary directed by Stephen Ujlaki, Chris Jones #juneteenth #history #politics #lynching #terrorism #domesticterrorism #AfricanAmericans #AfricanAmericanHistory #whiteevangelicals #evangelicals #KKK #KuKluxKlan #evangelicalChristians #Murder #truecrime #caste #IsabelWilkerson #henrylouisgates #henrylouisgatesjr #rape #vigilantism #vigilanteviolence #lynchingpostcards #EmmettTill #antilynchingact #emmetttillantylynchingact #mississippiburning #klan #banalityofevil

Are cries of communism about genuine communist paranoia? Or merely political opportunism? Find out the facts in The Truth About... Red-Baiting.#communism #co...

Should marijuana be fully legalized? Why was it ever criminalized? And is it really a "gateway drug"? Find out the facts in The Truth About...Marijuana. SOURCES: SMOKE AND MIRRORS: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum THE NEW JIM CROW: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander THE MISINFORMATION AGE: How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall THE VANISHING MIDDLE CLASS: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy by Peter Temin THE HACKING OF THE AMERICAN MIND: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains by Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL CONTAGIOUS: Why Things Catch on by Jonah Berger STATE OF CONFUSION: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind by Dr. Bryant Welch REPUBLIC OF EQUALS: A Manifesto for a Just Society by Jonathan Rothwell PUNISHMENT WITHOUT CRIME: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Alexandra Natapoff HOW TO BE ANTI-RACIST by Ibram X. Kendi DOG WHISTLE POLITICS by Ian Haney Lopez FROM THE WAR ON POVERTY TO THE WAR ON CRIME: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton RECONSIDERING REAGAN: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump by Daniel S. Lucks PRISONERS OF POLITICS: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration by Rachel Elise Barkow ONE PERSON, NO VOTE: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson Legalize It All How to win the war on drugs By Dan Baum From the April 2016 issue Harper’s: http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/ #pot #weed #marijuana #marihuana #marijuanalegalization #warondrugs #justsayno #reefer #reefermadness #medicinalmarijuana #medicalmarijuana #hemp #marijuanamovement #marijuanaismedicine #richardnixon #nixon #counterculture #gatewaydrug #drugwar #drugs #druguse #drugabuse #misinformation #truth #drugclassification #heroin #lsd #mushrooms #narcotics #federalbureauofnarcotics #harryanslinger #harryjanslinger #smokeandmirrors #johnehrlichman #nixonadministration #marijuanacriminalization #drugcriminalization #decriminalization #decriminalize #politics #marijuanarx #allanwhincup #quirkbooks #pharmaceuticalindustry #alcohol #opioids #schizophreniarisk #healthrisks