Voting rights IS democracy
Democrats are talking about reforming the filibuster to keep Republicans from blocking the For the People Act.
Hope on the cliff’s edge in Brazil
The country’s president has reacted to the ongoing tragedy not with compassion but with exaggerated toughness.
Republicans: Against government of, by, and for the people
Don’t these control freaks understand that when a country like America is in the midst of a crisis it’s the job of the government to step in and use all the resources it has to bring it under control?
How Biden’s agenda is shaped by the corporate class
A national government that represents corporations and routinely lies to its voters needs Silicon Valley and the corporate press to maintain a stranglehold over the dissemination of information.
Raising the minimum wage is a health issue, too
Study after study has linked higher income to better health.
The boundless advantages of the welfare state — for the rich
Patenting the sun. Some of today's super-rich would love to add that subsidy to their welfare state.
The urgent need for a Biden-Putin summit
If the leaders of the two countries with more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear warheads can’t have a summit meeting and talk with each other, we’re in trouble. Real trouble.
Tax evasion and the 1%
“The richest 1% of U.S. households don’t report 21% of their income.”
America the usual
The longer we have to wait, the actual threats to national security can and will destroy this country.
Comeback for truth? Criminal comeuppance for Trump’s reign of terror, impoverished for lying?
A tsunami of criminal indictments, buoyed by massive civil penalties – who cares then if Trump ends up a jailbird?