Kris Broughton

Kris Broughton

Big Think Contributor, Resurgence Blog

Kris Broughton, a veteran of the financial services industry, combines searing opinions with emotionally engaging commentary to provide insightful, original criticism of today's social and political events. His work has been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, Reuters, the Post Tribune, Beacon News, and TV ONE Online.

Political pundits who are already naysaying the Obama Administration’s decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from our strategic reserves have no idea how Wall Street works. If the […]
My boss mused aloud about Sarah Palin’s presidential chances a few weeks ago. “She’s attractive,” he said with a bit of a gleam in his eye. “And she’s white.” It […]
Note to the Republican Party Debate Committee: you are free to appropriate the term “preseason exhibitions” from the NFL, since it looks like they won’t be using it any time […]
The Newt Gingrich presidential campaign has suffered more mishaps than you are likely to see in a marathon of The Three Stoogesepisodes. Almost a dozen campaign staffers have pulled a […]
I was dead wrong about Congressman Anthony Weiner. I don’t have a revision team, like Sarah Palin does, that will work overtime to try to make me look good when […]
I don’t know how many teenage girls I am following on Twitter, mostly because Twitter doesn’t have bouncers who card people before they can get in. Now there is one […]
My man Ta-Nehisi Coates has proven once again why I always click the link to his blog over at The Atlantic when the minutia of the internet starts trending towards […]