Kansas City, Missouri implements Zero Fare Transit; first major US city to do so
While other cities such as Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Denver have floated around the idea, Kansas City is now the first U.S. city to offer fare-free transit.
The quality (or inequality) of life
Poverty in history’s richest nation.
Empires are a secret until they start falling
As the US loses its position of global supremacy, we have an opportunity to fundamentally reshape what we as a nation represent.
Trump’s war on the courts, the press, and the states
Trump doesn’t want any resistance. He wants total control.
CEO pay is up nearly 1000% over the last four decades
"The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more)."
Anonymous donor pays tuition balance for Wiley College graduates
The estimated total debt of the more than 100 students in Wiley College's class of 2022 totaled $300,000.
Amped-up Age of Anxiety weaponized into Age of Nostalgia
Today, alas, confirms the truth of Pete Hamill’s quip, “The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.”
NRA says Secret Service ‘responsible for event security,’ guns prohibited during Pence’s keynote speech
The NRA announced that weapons of all kinds will be prohibited from the Institute for Legislative Action Leadership forum "prior to and during" Vice President Mike Pence's keynote speech in Dallas on Friday.
White nationalism, born in the USA, is now a global threat
Nationalist terror is a danger to the domestic security of the United States and, evidence shows, a global terror threat that endangers the very nature of global democratic society.
The retired General who stopped a Wall Street coup
General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on a millionaire-led effort to oust FDR and the New Deal.