As Covid deaths hit 800k, Sanders says Medicare For All needed to end ‘vulgarity’...
“The pandemic has demonstrated that a privatized healthcare system cannot ensure the health of the population.”
As Harry Reid dies at 82, Democrats urged to take his advice and abolish...
"I am now calling on the Senate to abolish the filibuster in all its forms."
The oligarchy’s ultimate political weapon
They want us to become so discouraged that we stop showing up to vote.
Can Trumpist fascism commandeer America, today’s richest, ‘exceptional,’ freedom-loving empire?
How can an unteachable blunderer—failing every presidential crisis, many self-created, pull off the most improbable, fascist lurch since the 19th century?
‘Not true’: Sanders counters Manchin’s bogus inflation argument against Build Back Better
"It's time for the American people to understand which side their senators are on."
Forget Manchin. Sanders says entire Democratic party must show ‘guts’ against corporate interests
The focus of the party, says the Vermont senator, must be “to restore faith with the American people that they actually stand for something.”
A few magnificent things that happened in 2021
Feeling bleak? Well, 2021 wasn’t all bad — here are a few astounding things ordinary people won at home and abroad.
Record corporate profits, record stock buybacks, and the plan to tax them
As corporations blow record sums repurchasing their stock to inflate CEO pay, Congress is advancing a tax aimed at curbing this harmful practice.
Biden administration extends student loan moratorium until May
“We know that millions of student loan borrowers are still coping with the impacts of the pandemic and need some more time before resuming payments.”
Leftist presidential candidate’s landslide win promises clean sweep of Pinochet’s fascist legacy
Chileans turned out in large numbers in a dramatic run-off election between a hard-right open admirer of Pinochet named Antonio Kast and a 35-year old leftist and veteran of a decade of protest actions against the government, Gabriel Boric.