3 bills to rein in executive pay
Shortly before heading home for the summer recess, members of Congress are rushing to introduce proposals for cracking down on unpopular, overpaid executives.
Nuclear disarmament should be a top 2020 campaign issue but is being ignored
With none of the major presidential candidates raising this kind of nuclear disarmament program, it is up to the US peace movement and Green Party candidates up and down the ticket to inject these demands into the 2020 elections.
To defeat Trump, ‘the resistance’ must own up to its own white supremacy
From immigration to climate, the white left’s blind spots have sullied even well intentioned efforts to combat Trump, the far right, and ecological collapse.
Koch, Bradley money fuels Trump’s right-wing echo chamber
In the face of widespread outrage, Trump's friends from the Summit have gone out of their way to justify his actions.
‘People are dying’: Bernie Sanders heads to Canada with an insulin caravan
"We are going to end pharma’s greed."
Senate Finance Committee deals a blow to Big Pharma
As the Trump administration explores executive action to lower drug prices, drugmakers, private insurers, hospitals and pharmacy benefit managers are engaged in a lobbying war.
Women continue to contribute in record numbers heading into 2020
However, it appears that many networks of prominent donors, including powerful women, are staying out of the presidential fundraising race for now.
Keeping up the fight against the Muslim ban
A year after the Supreme Court ruling upholding it, advocates have lined up legislation and presidential candidates behind undoing one of Trump’s signature abuses.
Judge halts Trump’s asylum ban that represents a “relentless attack on the very idea...
The rule would effectively stop people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from seeking refuge in the United States.
The Declaration of Independence told us what to do about tyrants like Trump
Over the past week, I’ve done a pretty good job of ignoring the trash that comes from U.S. President Donald Trump and...