Suppression session: Texas Democrats flee to D.C. to block State Republican voting restriction bill
“Republicans have turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to the needs of the citizens of Texas.”
Social Security versus national security
Whose entitlement really makes us safer?
Open Veins, Healing Wounds in Latin America
As the U.S. and Cuba had their first formal meeting in more than half a century, Eduardo Galeano, the great Uruguayan writer who did so much to explain the deeply unequal relations, recently died. Will the open wounds be healed in Latin America?
How Trump betrayed workers by gutting the Inflation Reduction Act
Community leaders united behind the initiative. And then Donald Trump stabbed them all in the back.
Watch: Bernie Sanders argues ‘we must end the greed of Big Pharma’
"Why is it that the pharmaceutical industry is able to charge the American people the highest prices on the planet for prescription drugs? Because their greed goes unchallenged in Washington, D.C."
Utah enacts social media measures to protect minors online
The two regulations come as parents and lawmakers are concerned over social media use and mental health.
Let’s Get on Board With High-Speed Rail
High-speed rail offers such huge benefits for us that we need to push it to the center of our policy demands, especially with a national election cycle already on us.
Not just the Supreme Court: Ethics troubles plague state high courts, too
It is against the law for federal judges to hear cases when they own stock in a party. But state supreme court justices, in North Carolina and elsewhere, are not held to the same standard.
Running for office in the age of Donald Trump and climate change
I found myself back in school on a crash course, discovering what’s wonderful (and not so wonderful) about my chosen hometown in the age of climate change and Donald Trump!
Growing calls to ‘audit the ultra-rich’ as Yellen says tax dodging could cost US...
"We can start closing this gap next week. Pass my Stop CHEATERS Act and audit the ultra-rich."