Author: KJ McElrath

This past weekend, the country and much of the world looked upon the events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia with horror and revulsion. It is the most recent manifestation of a rising tide of regressive racism that started coming out of the shadows and raising its ugly head when U.S. voters elected – then re-elected – its first African-American president. It continues to be legitimized by a demagogue in the White House who tacitly gives them his stamp of approval. There has been much written and discussed about this vitriolic racism and where it comes from – and...

After a trial lasting less than six weeks, price-gouging, blood-sucking, predatory capitalist vampire Martin Shkreli has been convicted on three counts of securities fraud. Arguably the most hated white-collar criminal in history, 34-year-old Shkreli came to public attention last year when one of his pharmaceutical companies, Turing, purchased the rights to a prescription drug Daraprim and raised the price from $13.50 to a whopping $750 for a single pill – and publicly gloated over his reprehensible action. Like the arrogant ass that he is, Shkreli refused to answer questions before a Congressional committee last year, before which he was...