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We urge members of Congress and the administration to pass permanent paid family and medical leave as part of a larger investment in our nation’s care infrastructure.

Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could.

Many conservatives are currently criticizing NBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams for embellishing an experience he had at the beginning of the Iraq War. These same conservatives, however, continue idolizing Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush who “embellished” a lot of stories in wartime.

Solving the climate crisis with ambitious policy programs like Green New Deals might help to alleviate some of the suffering caused by the austerity that is breaking the backs of working people in rich and poor countries alike.

Since reducing inequality became an official goal of the international community, income disparities have widened. This trend, typically blamed on trade liberalization and technological advances...

While it is important to hold our public officials accountable for their role in promoting the Muslim ban, we cannot stop there.

We need to prepare for a future in which advances in productivity – from technology or other sources – are shared more equally than they are today.

There was once a literate public. This is gone now, replaced by a vast burlesque.

"AT&T and Comcast spent enormous amounts of money lobbying to kill SB 822. They almost succeeded more than once, but we fought back."

O’Reilly continues to deny the allegations against him. As a living testament to hypocrisy, O’Reilly has built a career promoting family values.