They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

The chaos of Trump’s presidency is consistent with his record of 6 corporate bankruptcies. But in government, failure risks lives. Running government like a business brought us the Flint water crisis.

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

On this day in 1846, Alabama began statewide convict leasing, a practice later used to re-enslave emancipated Black people criminalized by unjust laws.