Trump’s 40 biggest broken promises
He’s made his rich friends richer, increased the political power of big corporations and the wealthy, and harmed working Americans.
Canceling student debt could be the answer to growing the economy
Overall, if these 44 million Americans were debt free, it would promote consumer spending and grow every sector of the U.S. economy.
Five things the shutdown shows us about 2019
This Trump-created crisis and the standoff that ensued give us an early indication of how little the Democratic Party as a whole has changed.
It’s time for Democrats to abandon stale centrist politics once and for all
The party’s centrist wing is terrified. The political enterprise they’ve spent their careers building runs counter to the big, universal redistributive policies being supported by the Democratic base.
Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal enriches billionaires with taxpayer cash
“Growth, thy name is suffering.”
The liberal contempt for Martin Luther King’s final year
“It challenges the imagination to contemplate what lives we could transform if we were to cease killing.”
How Power Works
When the state decides to isolate, discredit and crush you it has innumerable ways to do so.
The rightful owners of a key island military base for the US would like...
The Chagos Archipelago belongs to the country of Mauritius; it’s not a bargaining chip for the American empire.
The Leadership Institute: Conservative PR school
Trumpism, most unfortunately, is still with us—as is The Leadership Institute with its arch right-wing operation, now extending globally.
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian: Optimism of the will
Three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.