From here to Dystopia
“The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
Who’s really looting America?
By pitting us against each other – blaming immigrants, blaming liberals, and especially blaming people of color, and Black people in particular – they’ve divided us, and gotten away with it.
Justice Department changes position on Texas’ discriminatory voter ID law
The DOJ, now overseen by Jeff Sessions, is walking back years of effort aimed at limiting the harmful effect of state voter ID measure on minorities.
US progressives need a foreign policy
Most of these candidates have missed the opportunity to really critique their country’s costly failures on the world stage.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, October 15
DNA confirms Elizabeth Warren's ancestry, Trump says 'we won' in regards to Christine Blasey Ford, Bernie Sanders rips White House for dismissal of climate science, and more.
Noam Chomsky: Members of migrant caravan are fleeing from misery & horrors created by...
Noam Chomsky talks about the Central American caravan and national security adviser John Bolton declaring Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to be part of a “troika of tyranny” and a “triangle of terror” earlier this month.
How the NRA’s radical anti-gun-control ideology became GOP dogma & still warps debate
“The NRA’s ideology is something that they’ve convinced the overwhelming majority of elected officials in the GOP, especially on the national level, to believe.”
Trump’s ultimate crime: Defiling our vital story line
The only way we resurrect our positive story is to incinerate this fake one, to reject hatred and racism, white nationalism and smug, tribal complacency. That targets Trump and Republicanism.
Hillary Clinton’s Glass-Steagall
Hillary Clinton won’t propose reinstating a bank break-up law known as the Glass-Steagall Act and this just might be the biggest mistake in her presidential campaign. Is Clinton still too close to Wall Street?
Cities tap into citizen feedback to guide federal relief spending
The American Rescue Plan provided an opportunity for smaller communities to democratize their budgeting.