Compassion versus greed
Why do we permit investors to latch on to apartments and neither live in them nor put them up for rent?
The whole damn system is guilty as hell: Taking control of police
Democratic community control of the police transforms the power dynamic between police and citizens.
Record inequality and corporate profits are what media call a ‘strong economy’
What explains corporate media’s credulous reliance on uninformative economic measures, and contradictory references to a “strong economy,” alongside reports on a struggling working class?
Senate VAWA bill ‘undercuts tribal sovereignty’
“Placing paternalistic restrictions on tribal courts in the name of 'due process' is nothing more than a disguise for prejudice."
Should there be a maximum income?
What, after all, is the guiding light of society?
Time for a billionaire ban
The wealthiest Americans dominate our airwaves. Let’s hear from someone else for a change.
How to in the holiday healthcare debate with your conservative relatives
Like 99% of Americans, Uncle Joe would benefit from the change if he only knew the truth.
Fighting for America’s soul
Progressives are fighting to save the values and institutions on which their country was founded.
How the spirit of the indigenous occupation of Alcatraz lives on, 50 years later
In 1969, indigenous activists occupied Alcatraz Island, demanding that their treaties be honored. Fifty years later, they’re still fighting.
A new generation of Black farmers is returning to the land
They are working to repair harm inflicted over the past 400 years, with an eye toward reparations.