Best antidote to GOP-Trumpery: ‘Make America happy, again’
“Make America Great Again” is fast becoming the most infamous, ironic, fake promise ever made – as misery abounds. Trump showed that fear-mongering fixations work short-term; let’s try happiness-mongering.
How the New Flexible Economy Is Making Workers’ Lives Hell
Just-in-time scheduling is designed to make customer-driven businesses more nimble and keep costs to a minimum. But while it's part of America's new "flexible economy," it doesn't allow working people to live their lives.
More Than 1.5 Million Florida Voters Will Be Missing From Tuesday’s Primary
How a Confederate-era law designed to suppress black voters impacts elections today.
The right-wing attack on Medicare for All
The campaign of lies continues.
Whatever happened to the Republican Party that stood for limited government?
Today’s Republican Party, while still claiming to stand for limited government, is practicing just the opposite: government intrusion everywhere.
Trump’s unconstitutional assault on the judiciary
This assault on the federal judiciary is an abuse of Trump’s constitutional authority – yet another ground for impeachment.
The Fraud of the New ‘Family-Friendly’ Work
The new family-friendly policies seem ideally timed, but they apply only to a tiny group considered “talent”—highly educated and in high demand— to help to recruit and keep them. Let's not celebrate this new era just yet.
Occupy Biden demonstrates how to hold politicians accountable
A coalition completed a weeklong occupation of land close to the President’s home with two demands: that he declare a climate emergency and that he stop any new fossil fuel projects.
NRA Paying Senators to Vote Against Gun Reform
Senate members were recently paid by firearms lobbyists to vote against yesterday's gun legislation.
Biden’s $7 billion Afghan heist
“We can’t bring our loved ones back, but we can save the lives of people in Afghanistan by advocating that the Biden Administration release this money to its rightful owners: the Afghan people.”