Friday, June 26, 2026

The myth of the free market

Regulation is not the enemy of incentive, invention, or innovation. Nor is it incompatible with progress, profits, or personal gain.

So much for ‘the squad’—much-hyped new U.S. progressive bloc has caved to corporate power

People who want structural change in the U.S. will have to develop new channels and networks to overcome the established power system.

New analysis reveals Beto O’Rourke historically has voted for the right-wing agenda

O’Rourke’s track record shows votes for Republican tax, trade, health care, criminal justice and immigration-related legislation.

NAACP Teams With Low-Income Children’s Program to Help Parents Too

The partnership is aimed at providing families with the economic opportunities they otherwise aren't afforded.

‘Tax the rich’? Democrats’ plans to make the wealthy pay a little more will...

It's far below the level of progressivity the United States embraced in the middle of the 20th century—when wealthier individuals paid a much higher share of their income in taxes than the poor.

The Five Worst Foreign Policy Moments of the GOP New Hampshire Debate (Video)

The New Hampshire GOP debate’s most charged moments may have been mostly on domestic issues, but, inevitably with this gang, war, torture and sundry mayhem did make an appearance.

Why women are skipping work and wearing red on Wednesday

U.S. organizers of International Women’s Day urge women to find creative ways to strike on March 8.

Progressive legislation would tax Wall Street to pay for free college and eliminate student...

"We bailed out Wall Street in 2008. It's time to tax Wall Street's greed to help the American people."

Self-indicted by unpatriotic hate speech, witless right hypocrites slur Dems for ‘hating America’

The first national party to run "for the American presidency by running against the Constitution and the rule of law."

When the Poetry of Campaigning Becomes a Cheesy, Dirty Limerick

Political rhetoric in the GOP has degenerated into name-calling and petty insults.