Politics

Here is why Democrats’ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, as a high-powered, but low-profile Democrat “Teflon don,” would make a superb (though hardly exclusive) target for our movement’s “ratting out” tactics.

The President has "worked himself into such a tizzy over the TPP." While his progressive friends in Congress are questioning the secret trade agreement, Obama is lashing out at them in a pathetic show of presidential petulance.

Focusing on the wrong threats, including a New Cold War with China, is the last thing we can afford now.

Do we know something about how politicians use storytelling and how it impacts voters’ brains?

And no fix they come up with should come out of the pockets of workers or retirees.

Indiana has recently made some extremely controversial movements in history these past couple weeks. A recent decision, to imprison a woman for what she says was a miscarriage but what Indiana’s government believes was an attempt to end her pregnancy, has left many feeling disturbed.

Photograph from Judiciary Committee session prompts accusations that DOJ tracked lawmakers reviewing Epstein records.

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?

Not likely. Our super rich need the fog they create.

In order to actually exercise democracy at this summer’s Democratic National Convention, Sanders has called on Schultz to stop stacking the deck in Clinton’s favor.