From Selma to Springfield: Why we’re marching in Illinois
Our loved ones – past, present, and future – are always in this struggle with us. We march for all of them, and for all of us.
From carpet to clean air: It’s time for California to stand up for environmental...
Our representatives should uplift our health and quality of life not in words, but with action.
Mass shootings and domestic violence
“There’s absolutely no doubt that the practice of violence within a home . . . opens the floodgates to public violence.”
Former House Speaker Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison
Before Dennis Hastert was House Speaker he worked as a teacher and wrestling coach, during which time he sexually abused several of his male students.
Special needs school fires educators for mocking autistic child on audio recording
Instead of expressing a modicum of compassion for the special needs student, his teacher and a teacher’s aide incessantly derided the boy and his condition with open disdain.
Senate Democrats Introduce We The People Act Seeking to Reverse Citizens United
“We all have a right to know who’s behind the microphone.”
Do high taxes on our rich make any sense?
We need to do more than tax high incomes. We need to limit them.
The New European Fascists
Poland offers a frightening example of the right-wing populism sweeping through many nations. Neoliberalism is wrecking economies, creating rage among the working class, devastating cultural institutions and eroding liberal democracy across Europe and in the United States.
Labor Day 2050: How Global Warming Threatens Labor Productivity
Higher CO2 levels directly harm human cognition.
Lawsuit filed after California police officers shoot unarmed man on video
Recorded on surveillance video as several South Gate police officers shot him more than a dozen times, the unarmed victim recently filed...









