Politics

When the state decides to isolate, discredit and crush you it has innumerable ways to do so.

“It challenges the imagination to contemplate what lives we could transform if we were to cease killing.”

It’s time to ask ourselves what kind of country takes property purchased by a freed slave to enrich a corporation.

The need for a Sanders-Warren united front should be clear -- as clear as the imperative of rolling back the monstrous right-wing power that has controlled the presidency during the last three years.

The late ‘60s and early ‘70s were crazy, but we’re looking wilder.

An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.

"In the United States of America, your financial life and future should not be destroyed because you or a member of your family gets sick."

To avoid further crises with huge tragic social costs, we have an urgent task to bring finance back under democratic control, to reconfigure society’s relation to finance capital, indeed, to Capital itself.

One in five renters in Britain could not afford to pay January’s rent out of their normal salary and were forced to resort to credit cards, loans, overdrafts, pay day loans and borrowing from friends and family in order to pay housing costs.

Americans should be asking candidates for Congress whether they support government intervention against obscene drug prices. Until that happens, this disgraceful story will not be over.