Politics

“I’m encouraged by the direction people are pushing our party to take on foreign policy, promoting restraint and human rights and with the sense they want Congress to play a much larger role.”

Student debt cancellation “is good economic policy that will change the lives of millions of families,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley.

Portions of the wall were in danger of overturning if not fixed due to extensive erosion just months after it was built.

Today our greed-based, war addicted, and growth-obsessed economic system poses even greater threats than it did during the early phases of the Industrial Revolution.

"When Donne spoke of the bells tolling "for thee", he was referring to death. But it applies every time we turn a blind eye to those whose lives are being violated in our name."

Maybe what it will take for brainwashed U.S. citizens to wake up to the fact that we’re all being lied to about the marvels of capitalism will be for the “socialist” Webb telescope to discover an advanced socialist-type society thriving on some distant planet.

A president can do a lot in battling climate change, without Congressional approval, through executive orders and EPA regulations. Obama’s record was mixed and hesitant. Biden will need to do many times better.

Profit maximizing in the newspaper industry is corroding the knowledge base that sustains government by the people.

Sanders joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Katie Porter, and others in questioning Cal-Maine Foods' claim that an avian flu outbreak is to blame for soaring egg prices.

Waste is a pretty bad thing – particularly in these days when we are all noticing that the price of food is increasing.