8 lessons US progressives can learn from the UK Labour Party
As of mid-July, Labour is 8 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Here’s how they did it.
Bernie Sanders promises, if elected, all administration members will oppose fracking and fossil fuels
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that if elected for 2020 U.S. President, his administration would only be made up of officials who,...
The absurd amount of entitlements that go to rich people
Wealthy Americans complain about ‘entitlements’ for the poor, but they keep collecting their own entitlements, to a degree that average Americans can only dream about.
A political 100-year flood
Along rivers prone to overflowing, people sometimes talk of preparing for a 100-year flood -- a dangerous surge of muddy, debris-filled water...
Packing the Supreme Court
Mitch McConnell’s long-term strategy of packing the Court in order to entrench the Republican Party is becoming an obscene reality.
Clearing the Trump Trainwreck!
When reality goes from bad to worse/ What’s sane for me is satiric verse.
In gift to rich tax cheats, Republicans strip IRS funds from bipartisan infrastructure bill
“Republicans can always be counted on to help billionaires not pay taxes.”
The End of Big Banks
When reasonable Republicans and Democrats begin to converge on policy, we are more likely to get sensible change.
The (revealing) short squeeze: Populism comes for Wall Street?
“We don’t have billionaires to bail us out when we mess up our portfolio risk and a position goes against us.”
Homelessness Soaring in the UK As People Can No Longer Afford To Pay Rent
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.