Ellen Brown: How to escape the federal debt trap
Raising taxes and trimming the budget can slow future growth of the debt, but they are unable to fix the underlying problem.
CIA-linked military contractor used Arizona ‘black site’ to secretly jail dozens of migrant children
A major U.S. military and CIA contractor has been detaining dozens of migrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets.
The politics of water
It's in your sink...
What the fact?! Reacting to the RNC
Robert Reich reacts to the most outrageous whoppers and provided some fact-based rebuttals.
Is universal basic income part of a just transition?
When you give everyone a chunk of change, does it really change their lives and their communities?
GHW Bush finale on ‘blowhard’ Trump?
When nominations and campaigns get corrupted, elections are inevitably degraded – and forget rational governance by capable leaders.
Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court: 7 questions answered
Alexis Karteron, director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic at Rutgers University Law School, gives her impressions of the nomination.
Hundreds of protesters shut out as the Trump admin. gives fossil fuels industry the...
Representatives from fossil fuels companies were invited to speak on a panel alongside White House officials.
‘An absolute joke’: Debate moderators condemned for asking about Ellen and George Bush after...
As America's pundits and newspapers rushed to pronounce the winners and losers of Tuesday night's 2020 Democratic presidential debate, progressives argued the event's moderators deserve to...
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.