Saturday, November 7, 2026

‘Big step for democracy’: NC Supreme Court delays primaries over gerrymandered maps

“These rigged maps will go to trial with the North Carolina Supreme Court next month—and, if there’s any justice, be consumed in fire directly afterward,” said one progressive advocacy group.

Biden signs executive order for a carbon-neutral federal government by 2050

The Biden administration’s efforts to reduce the federal government’s carbon emissions could have a ripple effect across the economy.

South Korea’s Green New Deal: Myths versus realities

There's one place in the world where the Green New Deal is a policy reality. But is it living up to its hype?

Legislation to improve Social Security bought to House

“We simply cannot and must not sit by and allow millions of our fellow citizens, who worked hard their entire lives, to spend their golden years living in poverty.”

Kamala vs. Mitt: Two different viewpoints of family planning prefigure different futures for planetary...

Forget their policies for a moment, and consider how two politicians’ lives foreshadow our ecological future.

When you’re a billionaire, your hobbies can slash your tax bill

Thoroughbred horses, auto racing, massive ranches, luxury hotels. The hobbies and side businesses of the ultrawealthy create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income tax for as much as a decade at a time.

The far right continues to build its international

Donald Trump and his allies around the world are still alive and kicking.

How Congress loots the Treasury for the military-industrial-congressional complex

How the conjunction of dysfunctional military leadership, an ever-growing arms industry and a Congress that keeps handing them trillions of dollars, constitutes the full flowering of President Eisenhower's greatest fears for the future of the United States.

Progressives sweep 2021’s municipal elections across Georgia

The grassroots organizing strategy that led to historic victories in 2020’s elections continued to boost voter turnout in communities of color.

Flaming the fans

How has the age of Trump changed fandom?