Reforming Democracy From the Grassroots Up
Frustrated by a somnolent Congress, a bipartisan group is tackling campaign finance reform one city at a time.
The deadly Fox News-Trump syndicate
It’s easy to feel outraged and defeated by Fox News. But it’s important to understand its formula for misleading Americans, particularly in the crisis we’re in.
Close the audit gap
Millionaires who skip their taxes should get audited, not the working poor. Closing that gap isn’t just fair — it’s essential to protect our democracy.
Pentagon’s financial abyss: Sanders exposes decades of dodged audits and rampant fraud
Amidst soaring defense spending, a new GAO report uncovers the Pentagon's chronic evasion of basic fraud prevention measures, with Senator Bernie Sanders leading the charge for accountability.
Trump’s dangerous lies about the Covid economy
Lies about the economy are harder to spot than lies about the coronavirus because the virus’s grim death count is painfully apparent while the economy is complicated.
Corporate media setting stage for New Cold War with China
Corporate media distortions and bombast are priming the American public to see China as a treacherous villain that has to be forcefully confronted, perhaps with violence.
What? A former prosecutor and attorney general running against a repeat convicted criminal?
Kamala Harris is making his felony conviction and his sexual assaults one of the central points of her strategy.
Dark money & Barrett nomination: The link between big polluters & the war on...
“My experience around politics is that when you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows.”
Democracy depends on broad-based taxation—history is clear about that
When governments depend on internal taxation, bargaining is required. Taxes are not simply extracted; they are negotiated, enforced, justified, and institutionalized.
Reframing America’s role in the world
The specter of Isolationism...