Sunday, July 26, 2026

Common Sense on the Democratic Presidential Race

A race isn’t over until someone wins.

For Billionaire Donors, Academic Integrity Comes Cheap

The Antonin Scalia School Of Law has a bigger problem than its acronym.

NRA Tells Parents To Keep Guns In Kids’ Rooms For Safety

265 people were accidentally shot and killed by kids last year.

Preparing for the Next Memorial Day

In the aftermath of the Memorial Day military parades and with a new administration looming on the horizon, a critical task for the coming year is to build a renewed, more vibrant, interracial, and multi-generational peace movement that will pressure the next administration.

Our Poverty Myth

The illusion that people are to blame for their own poverty goes back centuries in our culture.

Fight for $15 Organizers Demand a Union

The Fight for $15 is one of the most important labor struggles of our time, breathing new life into the labor movement with every victory.

Lock Up the Men, Evict the Women and Children

Part of the daily reality of poverty in America, evictions—along with mass incarceration—are the mechanisms used to destroy communities and profit from the misery of the poor.

Trump, the GOP and Media Pivot to ‘Normal’

Now that he has clinched the nomination, here comes the effort to shape Donald Trump’s image as a regular guy. But he remains “an existential threat.”

Climate Justice from the Ground Up: 6 Ballot Initiatives to Watch in 2016

These measures are noteworthy because they don’t just regulate emissions or mandate transitions. They actually do things like help the economically insecure, create material incentives for individual change, restore ecosystems, and reassert the authority of local entities over corporate polluters.

Glyphosate Found in Urine of 93 percent of Americans Tested

Glyphosate-containing herbicides are sold under trademarks such as Monsanto’s Roundup.