Thom Hartmann

For decades, networks have framed 10-hour voting lines as inspiring stories of civic dedication—ignoring a targeted strategy that quietly shapes American elections.

​History tells us that when ordinary people are forced to watch the rich buy their government and that government then fails to sustain them, they lose faith in democracy long before they realize it was actually unregulated capitalism that screwed them.

While Americans were celebrating this Labor Day weekend, in Magdenburg, Germany a 35-year-old neofascist, Ulrich Siegmund, told a cheering crowd

Thom Hartmann The Hartmann Report For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day

A disturbing political shift over the weekend reveals the real blueprint being deployed against Western democracy —and it's not coming from China.

In Monday's New York Times , Eric Schlosser — the guy who freaked out a nation with his book Fast Food Nation a quarter century ago — published an

Whenever I spoke with Gloria Steinem on my program over the years, I always got a sense of a person with incredible charisma, intellect, and a real grasp of what power was and how to use it. She was a force of nature.When the announcement that she’d passed away at 92 hit the news last week, it perfe...

Unlike a t-shirt or a bag of peas, federal law lets this massive new shipment completely hide its country of origin.

“The old order is dying and the new cannot yet be born; in this interregnum, monsters appear.” —paraphrase of Italian anti-fascist Antonio Gramsci

With public trust in government plummeting from 90% to near-zero, a massive power vacuum has opened, and the battle lines are officially drawn.