30 years ago today, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech at the time. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." - Ilya Prigogine, 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

In "A Salmon of Doubt," Douglass Adams likened the American national personality to a 16 year old gang member. Now Trump is proving him right.