Social Security benefits are not a gift, but a sacred contract with working people
“We put money into it. We deserve it back.”
How the rich get richer: Evade taxation, grease trillion-dollar tax breaks, jack interest rates,...
In class and status-conscious, materialistic America (was it ever otherwise?), scoring net worth is easier than figuring out messy election results.
Automation, climate change and Donald Trump: What kind of future are we in for?
Author Peter Frase combines science fiction and Marxist theory to imagine possible outcomes, for better and for worse.
Mailing sorting machines still being dismantled despite Postmaster’s promises to suspend all radical changes...
“We have to fight back to protect the U.S. postal system. This is about our election at the end of the day, and we’ve got to ensure that every vote gets counted.”
The 500 richest people in the world got $237 billion richer in 2016
Everything’s bigger in Richistan.
30 years later, the Senate should reject Jeff Sessions again
The Senate Judiciary Committee should be consistent and reject Sessions as attorney general, as it rejected him for a judgeship 30 years ago.
‘The West Bank is the prize’: Israel approves new settlements to ‘bury’ Palestinian State
The “E-1” settlement would see the construction of about 3,400 new housing units and would sever one of the last remaining territorial links between major Palestinian cities like Ramallah in the northern West Bank and southern cities including Bethlehem, as well as cut off East Jerusalem.
Just hours after Trump signs Muslim ban a Texas mosque went up in flames
The mosque has been the target of hatred before and was burglarized just a week ago.
Deb Haaland, one of nation’s first Native Congresswomen, calls for probe of missing indigenous...
"I’ll go to Congress to make sure that we are paying attention to the issues that folks care about."
The first ever US oil lease sale in the Arctic is a huge fail
“Essentially, the Trump administration had a party, hoped the oil industry would show up, and it didn’t.”









