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Thom Hartmann — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:03:50 GMT

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It’s Not the Hunter Trait That Kills You: It’s the Farmer’s World.

Back in 2015, a team of Danish researchers followed nearly 2 million people and reported in the British medical journal The Lancet that an ADHD diagnosis roughly doubled the risk of dying early. The statistic has been quoted so many times it’s become conventional wisdom, and I’ve lost track of the number of people who’d thrown it at me. Not to mention worried parents of Hunter kids…

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Could Eating Dinner After Dark Be Slowly Destroying Your Health?

Last week, I wrote about why permanent daylight savings time like the golf industry is pushing in the Senate right now would be a disaster for our biological clocks. Since this coming weekend the clocks will “fall back,” now’s a good time to also look at how our shortening days influence when we should be eating dinner…

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Thom Hartmann — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:13:57 GMT

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ADHD's Dirty Little Secret Is That Time Blindness May Not Be a Defect at All

On November 1st most of America will “fall behind” and set our clocks back an hour. For a few days millions of people will feel slightly unmoored, showing up too early or too late, being hungry at the wrong time, and wondering where the day went at its end…

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Why Is Trump Fighting for Daylight Saving Time When Scientists Warn It Will Endanger Millions?

Back in 1974, the year Richard Nixon put into place year-round daylight savings time, I was living just outside Lansing, Michigan. I remember the sun not coming up that January until nine in the morning; we drove to work in full darkness, kids stood under streetlights to catch the school bus, and eight schoolchildren were killed in traffic accidents in Florida…

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What If ADHD Isn’t an Attention Problem at All?

Last week a psychiatrist writing in The New York Times asked a question the entire industry should have been bringing up for the past 50 years: What if ADHD isn’t really about “attention” at all…

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What If Some of Our Depression Is Coming From the Grocery Store?

Back in the late 1970s, when Louise and I were running a residential treatment program and school for abused and emotionally disturbed kids, we took the children off the standard institutional diet. Out went the dyes, the artificial flavors, the sugary cereals and the boxed dinners, and in came real (vegetarian) food …

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Thom Hartmann — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:45:48 GMT

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The Kids Getting Diagnosed with ADHD Now Look Like Everyone Else. That’s the Point.

There’s a fascinating new study out of Denmark — which can easily do these kinds of analyses because they have a national healthcare system that leaves nobody out — on kids and teens who were diagnosed with ADHD or autism between 2012 and 2022, a ten-year period, comparing them to those kids who avoided either dia…

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Thom Hartmann — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:20:17 GMT

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Thom Hartmann — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:43:05 GMT

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Scientists Drop Bomb on ADHD: “Distraction” May Actually Be Curiosity

It was almost thirty years ago when my son was diagnosed with ADHD (and I was later) that I went on a search for explanations and came up with my “Hunter in a Farmer’s World” hypothesis. I argued that what we’re calling a disorder was actually a collection of traits specifically designed by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to help us survive …

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Scientists Finally Asked What Mother’s Milk Was Really Doing. The Answer Changes Everything.

Forty-some years ago, when our three kids were small and I thought I understood how the world worked, I’d sit in the half-dark and watch Louise nurse one of our children. My assumption was that it was a simple plumbing process, with glands producing milk that the child took in and the nourishment helped them grow…

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Did The New York Times Just Pull the Rug Out From Under the ADHD Establishment?

Every year around this back-to-school time, mainstream media feels obligated to run articles about ADHD; this past week it was The New York Times’ turn…

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Did This Experiment Just Blow Open the Mystery of Telepathy?

I’ve known Professor Richard Silberstein for decades; he’s one of my closest friends. And when you look at his credentials, you’d probably think he’d be the past person to write a book about telepathy. He’s a physicist by training who spent four decades as a working neuroscientist in Melbourne, chaired a physics department, founded a brain sciences inst…

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ADHD: The Deepest Wound Isn’t Attention. It’s Not Being Able to Trust Yourself.

While most of us Hunters are (painfully) aware of our limitations (and our skills), the most pernicious of all the stories we sometimes tell ourselves about our ADHD is that it means we can’t really count on ourselves when the going gets tough. It’s one of the most common concerns that pop up in therapists’ offices, and the…

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When a Physicist Follows the Data Somewhere He Didn’t Want to Go

It’s not often that you encounter a book that can flip your entire view of the world on its side, which is why I’m taking a moment to share this incredible work by an old friend with you…

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Thom Hartmann — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:18:30 GMT

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The “ADHD Myth” Documentary Got Half the Story, Then Wrecked It

Two weeks ago, Britain’s Channel 4 ran an hourlong show titled The Great ADHD Myth? that featured National Health Service psychiatrist Max Pemberton, an ADHD skeptic. The show drew 9,656 complaints from the public — people taking the time to find and pull up the channel’s online feedback form and let go with a blast — a massive negative reaction that’s …

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Gratitude Doesn’t Follow a Good Life. It Builds One.

My mom got me started on this. We’d go someplace cool and see some extraordinary site and she’d say, “Aren’t we lucky to be able to be here and see this?” When she sat with me as a little kid and we said our prayers together, they were always lists of things we were thanking God for. And she could find beauty th…

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Thom Hartmann — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:48:32 GMT

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Are Ultra-Marathoners Exposing What We Got Wrong About ADHD?

One of the main myths about people with ADHD is that we just can’t sustain effort…

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Could Psilocybin Break Through Where Antidepressants Failed?

I was a teenager the first time I tried LSD and mescaline. Tim Leary had sent a dozen disciples out to evangelize the world and a guy named Keith St. Clair showed up at The Paper office (the MSU underground newspaper; I was living there) with a box full of Owsley acid and cactus buttons…

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Thom Hartmann — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:23:37 GMT

This month is our first meeting of our book club and I wanted to let you know that instead of doing it by Zoom like our monthly Saturday meetings for subscribers, we’re going to do this one with the Substack native video application. This is our first time trying this out, so we’re not sure how it’s going to work but we’re hopeful it’ll be easier for everybody this way.

With the Zoom meetings, only paid subscribers get the link and can attend. Doing the Book Club this way, everybody can show up but to keep the spammers and harassers down only paid members can comment in the chat room. Nigel will be moderating and we think we can bring people from the chat room into a live conversation to discuss Q&A, etc.

So, keep an eye on your Substack app on your phone or your email for a link/invite/notice of the live event and we’ll see you at 9 AM PT/Noon ET in just a few minutes…

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They Told You Your ADHD Brain Was Broken. They Were Wrong.

“Executive function” is the big buzzword these days in ADHD circles. Psychology Today defines it…

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Could Forest Bathing Be One of Public Health's Most Overlooked Tools?

Nature is powerful medicine. Multiple studies over the years have found that people in hospitals with windows overlooking nature recover and heal faster than those without. And I remember the years when Louise and I ran a community for abused kids that was out in the woods of rural New England, it always seemed t…

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Thom Hartmann — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:34:08 GMT

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Greg Palast — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:05:42 GMT

Here are two ways an American can make a citizen.

1. Take your partner out for a nice dinner and a romantic dance.
2. Once home, with no light but candles, remove unnecessary clothing, and let Nature guide you.
3. Roughly nine months later, a citizen arrives…

…OR,

1. Spend $75 online to set up a Limited Liability Corporation in Delaware.

This would be a damn funny joke if it weren’t true.

According to Supreme Court dicta in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that $75 is all you need to make an American a person under the 14^th Amendment to the Constitution.

We know that the 2010 Citizens United case claimed that corporations are people, too. They can donate to political candidates, that is, purchase elections. There’s no other way to put it.

But there are two problems with the corporations-are-people assertion:

1. I’ve never heard of a corporation that lost its legs in Vietnam
2. Corporate citizenship is a complete fraud.

Thom Hartmann, the historian and talk show host, has put on his Sherlock Holmes’ deerstalker hat and discovered that the Citizens United decision was based on the fraudulent reporting of a key Supreme Court case way back in 1886. A corrupt clerk working for the Supreme Court combined with a dodgy Justice to falsely state that corporations are “people.”

That is NOT what the Justices decided in the 1886 case But in 2010, the corporate bum-lickers on the Court cited this fraudulent “precedent” of corporate citizenship — and put America’s elections up for sale.

Hartmann’s newly-released book, Who Killed the American Dream: The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told (Barrett Koehler 2026) is a rippin’ detective story whose power is in its hard history. Hartmann explains, and he’s on solid ground here, that Citizens United is based on an entirely fabricated reading of the Supreme Court’s 1886 decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company.

Before you run away screaming that Hartmann’s story suggests too much legalese, in fact, he’s written a film-worthy, gripping, horrific story which is, in its weird way — think The Sting with a bad-guys-win ending — very entertaining.

The plot line kicks off with this: Hartmann’s in a law library (the kind of the thing he does) and looks up the case on which Citizens United was based. He opens the Southern Pacific Railroad case and finds a head-scratcher: There is NOTHING in the opinion which grants corporations human-hood.

Nothing. Citizens United and the other crazy corporate citizenship cases are based on…nothing. Well, not nothing. There is what’s called a “head-note,” something written by the official court reporter that asserts it is a fair summary of the case.

In 1886, the Court Reporter had, in cahoots with a wily Justice, Stephen Field, monetarily greased by railroad interests, simply made it up. That is, “summarized” the Santa Clara case in a way that ignored the actual written conclusions of the court.

This is a big deal. A REALLY BIG deal. The corrupt court reporter wrote:

“The defendant Corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”

Corporations are persons?!? Lots of corporations have been convicted of felony crimes — but I’ve never seen a corporation breaking rocks on a chain-gang.

OK, a little legalese is needed here. Every case has a head note drafted by a (hopefully) honest court reporter. But the head note has absolutely ZERO legal weight. It’s just an easy blurb for paralegals in a hurry. Like an old TV Guide summary of an episode of Gray’s Anatomy.

But, the court reporter, J.C. Bancroft Davis, working with his railroad buddies and the under-handed Justice Field, concocted a head note that granted personhood to these fictional entities known as corporations. I think Bancroft and Field would have made Tinkerbell a citizen, but Disney hadn’t made the movie yet.

The effect of Citizens United has been devastating to say the least. Now corporations can pull out their checkbooks and swamp your vote with millions of dollars in “donations.” Who do you think a politician will listen to: you with your one puny vote or Daddy Warbucks with a wallet thicker than a Big Mac?

The header granting corporations personhood was, like any Big Lie, repeated and cited often enough that it simply became the law of the land.

And the consequences are nothing short of evil. Corporations are, under the 2010 Citizens United decision, treated the same as people — people made out of flesh and bones.

Under former law, convicted murderer Charles Manson could not donate to a political campaign from prison…but under Citizens United, Charles Manson & Co. could write big checks to buy a pardon.

In 2011, I discovered a donation to support Republican Mitt Romney’s run against Barack Obama through Restore Our Future PAC came from a limited liability corporation called “F8 LLC.” The company only showed $87,000 in sales for the year but managed to donate a cool million dollars to the Republican campaign, Who is behind this million dollar payment? Investigators with the Campaign Legal Center dubbed the executive “John Doe.” Want to know who’s behind the GOP? Ask Mr. “Doe.”

Under Citizens United, Al Qaeda Inc. may donate as well as Putin & Sons. In the 2010 argument over Citizens United, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg asked how Americans can tell if the government of China is funding candidates via incorporated front groups in the US. Chief Justice Roberts said that would be up to Congress — that is, the very politicians bought by a Chinese front or “F8 LLC.”

How odd, Trump has argued that kids born in the US to immigrant parents aren’t Americans, but Corporations born in the Cayman Islands and registering in Wyoming have citizenship rights.

So, RBG’s question suggests a solution that’s less of a heavy lift compared to Hartmann’s call to amend the Constitution. Congress can allow corporations to donate if they certify and prove they have no foreign owners. That would be a bit of a problem for Citibank. Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding just bought $450 million of Citibank stock and more is controlled by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Would the Saudis try to influence American elections? Does a bear….?

Under current law, I can’t give to a candidate without stating my name and address. We don’t need a Constitutional Amendment to require that corporations that donate to campaigns list all their shareholders.

Right now, I’m completing my film about how the Brothers Koch stole $6 billion in oil from the Osage Nation. They bought their way out of a criminal indictment by literally purchasing themselves a new Congress through a corporate shell called “Triad.” At the time, corporate donations were a go-to-jail felony, but the Kochs slithered away until Citizens United, when their fake corporate front was legalized.

So what’s the problem with corporate cash in campaigns? This: Wise men have said, “Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn.” Corporations are artificial creatures that feel no pain but can inflict it. And they do.

And what truly should make you ill is, as Hartmann lays out, the legal case for Citizens United was a fraud, a scam, a con, a bamboozle.

Who Killed the American Dream?: The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told is out now and available from Amazon, on Kindle, and wherever good books are sold.

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They are in real need of your tax-deductible donation RIGHT NOW to get these films and reports out. Journalism done right is not journalism done cheap. And that’s why we have such impact. As CK Hoffler, attorney with RainbowPUSH says, “We rely on the work of Greg Palast and his team.”

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