Women continue to contribute in record numbers heading into 2020
However, it appears that many networks of prominent donors, including powerful women, are staying out of the presidential fundraising race for now.
Reporting on global crises like Amazon fires, media need to focus on who’s fighting...
It doesn’t matter so much how many reports corporate media write; if the same people stay at the center of them, the story won’t change.
Media allow Republicans to use ‘unity’ as tool of division
The new president seeks bipartisanship, but he is caught between Republicans who want tangible concessions and Democrats who are in no mood to compromise.
Of Caesar, guns and trolls: The evil that men do
The GOP and right wing will use any diversion to distract us from an agenda of cruelty and madness.
Ben Carson: Fighting Trump’s war on the poor
Somehow a trillion-dollar tax giveaway is no issue for the deficit, but modest housing assistance for America's poorest people has to go.
Recent disasters reveal racial discrimination in FEMA aid process
But if the FEMA response to recent disasters is any indication, storm victims could face barriers in securing federal aid – especially if they're not white.
Billionaires made more money in 2017 than any other year in recorded history
Meanwhile, 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty and "5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty."
The inequality to be suffered by our children
Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.
The First Amendment goes wild
The use of money has no real limitations and the state should not be providing it to churches or their subsidiaries.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, July 2, 2018
Protestors march against Trump's immigration policies, San Francisco becomes first major city to have $15 minimum wage, and more.