Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families
The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.
The cuts in Trump’s budget you haven’t heard about
While national outrage is focused on Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, tiny agencies helping communities that teeter on the edge of poverty would also disappear.
Washington’s delusion of endless world dominion
China and the U.S. struggle over Eurasia, the epicenter of world power.
The tragedy of forced displacement
The solutions to this major crisis, and indeed many of our problems, would naturally flow from the recognition of the fact that we are brothers and sisters of one humanity.
Putting Donald Trump’s impeachment in context
High crimes and misdemeanors of the fading American century.
The end of trickle-down economics
Percolate-up economics works. Trickle-down does not.
The Promise (and Peril) of the New Populism
Populism can be dangerous when embraced by the right because it usually comes mixed with nativism.
‘What the hell happened?’: Bowman introduces COUP Act to investigate pro-Trump mob’s Capitol attack
The bill seeks to "establish an investigation into any further ties between Capitol Police and white supremacy, insurrectionism, or fascism."
Biden names Camp Hale a national monument in his first national monument designation
The former military training facility shut down in 1965 and has since been used for recreational purposes.
An Act of Protest, Not Sabotage, at the Birthplace of the Bomb
The security breach at the military complex Y-12 sent shock waves through the national-security establishment. While the three Transform Now Plowshares activists faced federal sabotage charges and up to 30 years in prison, they were still out on bail and free to attend the congressional hearings prompted by their act of civil disobedience.








