Are Private Schools Better than Public?
Our public school system may be the best in the world. However, poverty, coupled with the fact that the people in charge are ignoring facts and turning instead to the corporate profit-seekers, is debilitating to the system.
Merger mania in the military-industrial complex
Pentagon waste is a longstanding issue in desperate need of meaningful action.
Why we need to keep our super rich ‘occupied’
We don’t quite know yet how the current spotlight on taxing America’s wealthiest is going to turn out. But just getting to this point, counts as a significant step into a more just and equal future.
Toxic Economy: Common Chemicals Cost US Billions Every Year
Researchers estimate the United States economy takes a $340 billion hit annually as endocrine-disrupting compounds lower IQs, increase behavior problems and exacerbate health woes like obesity and diabetes.
NYT writes post-mortems for a Sanders campaign it did its best to kill
The coronavirus may have halted most campaigning for now—but it evidently has not stopped anti-Sanders media bias.
Building a better and fairer economy
Despite all the arguments in our own society against socialist systems, this sort of system could include the best parts of capitalist systems.
Time to solve the student debt crisis
This is the kind of issue that progressives should aim to solve.
Primary day: Lessons for Democrats
If Democrats are willing to propose bold electoral reform, there may be some hope for them in November.
Trump at Tulsa as 21st century Typhoid Mary, as Fauci warns on rally, science-bashing
Oklahoma public health officials are afraid that the enormous rally will spread the disease.
The President from Hell (and High Water)
Tom Engelhardt on what a Democratic sweep in November would and would not change, and a $2.8 billion bomb sale to Israel.