The nation’s youth have stepped up as poll workers for upcoming election so elderly...
“One of the things that has started to become more apparent to people at a young age is what is at stake.”
How student loans became America’s financial catastrophe
From hopeful beginnings to a broken system, student loans reveal how policy choices turned higher learning into a lifelong financial trap.
Authoritarian: Sanders describes Trump after the administration attacks the free press
"Trump describes the free media as an "enemy of the people"; attacks leaders of democratic countries while cozying up to authoritarian nations; and now uses his influence to try to stop the counting of votes in FL and GA."
No Kings, the second time around
Is everything now being Trumped (or perhaps that should be put in capital letters: TRUMPED)?
Dictator Trump
Perhaps Trump’s current attack on American democracy through his assertion of a fake national emergency is intended as to distract from this larger attack on America.
DNC will not host climate-specific presidential primary debate and plans to punish candidates that...
"The DNC is silencing the voices of Democratic activists, many of our progressive partner organizations, and nearly half of the Democratic presidential field, who want to debate the existential crisis of our time."
Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from the Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement. After serving for 27 years, Breyer, 83, will step down from his lifetime position at the end of the term in June.
How we stand up to Putin and stop climate catastrophe
The best way to contain Russia, and build a sustainable future, is with a carbon dividend.
What’s behind inflation? Greedy corporate executives
Hocus Pocus—this is how the rich get richer and inequality “happens.”
France Bans Plastic Silverware, Plates and Cups
France has become the first country to ban the use of single-use plastic kitchenware by 2020.