The Resistance needs better heroes
A movement is defined by its heroes. The Resistance can find better heroes than the ones some of its members have chosen – and it should.
US doubles down as empire declines
U.S. global dominance is coming to an end. The issue is how will it end?
A 2 percent financial wealth tax would provide a $12,000 annual stipend to every...
It's not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and artistic pursuits for American households with an...
Students are being punished for walking out to protest gun violence
Students are being suspended, given detentions, and even corporal punishment, for participating in the national walk out.
Photo essay: Eight reasons students walked out over gun laws
“All of these students will be voting in the next four years. We will be in the driver’s seat.”
Everybody does better when everybody does better
Populism – neither right nor left, Republican or Democrat – it is not based on ideology, but on two gut-level fundamentals.
Talking sense about immigration
In the end, isn’t it time to challenge the notion that people in general, and immigrants in particular, can be easily divided into deserving good guys and undeserving bad guys?
The racist origin of the Second Amendment and the rise of black gun ownership
Throughout history gun control laws have been used against people of color.
The empty piety of the American Press
Corporations that own the press look at news as a revenue stream. Journalism is irrelevant.
People are showing they’ve had enough
People can only be squeezed so much before they rise up and say, “enough!”