Saturday, November 14, 2026

A progressive revival: Cleveland, Preston and municipal social democracy

One of the progressive left’s goals has to be to empower citizens and this is most easily done at the local level.
McGraw Tower at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Photo: P. Hughes / CC BY-SA 4.0

Students have fought sexual violence for years. They want to know when universities will...

Allegations by two women that Cornell and LSU took insufficient action after they were assaulted on campus have reignited national outrage over how schools respond to sexual violence.

How Kavanaugh will change the Supreme Court

Based on what we know about measuring the ideology of justices and judges, the Supreme Court will soon take a hard and quick turn to the right.

Fight the Establishment

See presidential elections as mostly a distraction, keeping most Americans from understanding that they live in a money-controlled delusional democracy.

Noem calls to eliminate FEMA after delaying Texas flood response by days

FEMA officials say Kristi Noem’s own approval policy caused life-threatening delays before she used them to justify dismantling the agency.

Reign of idiots

Trump embodies the essence of this decayed, intellectually bankrupt and immoral world.

Sen. Merkley tries to gain access into migrant shelter for kids, but was denied;...

"We still have no idea what’s happening in the detention center where reportedly up to a thousand children are being held, since they refused the senator’s request to go inside.”

When rhetoric meets crisis: Trump’s retribution threat after Kirk’s killing and a nation awash...

In the hours after Charlie Kirk was killed at a Utah campus, President Donald Trump blamed the “radical left” and vowed retribution—just as a Colorado high school shooting left three teens in critical condition. Progressive leaders condemned Kirk’s murder and warned against inflaming tensions while data show extremist violence is overwhelmingly right-wing.

800 scientists sign declaration of support for global climate justice activists

"We believe it is our moral duty to act now, and we urge other scientists to join us in helping to protect humanity’s only home."

How workers are revolutionizing the South

Local 1025 members shared firsthand accounts of how the union boosted their wages, gave them a voice, and kept them safe on the job.