6 women of color who campaigned for Congress on inequality and won
These trailblazers often drew from their own personal stories to connect with and win over the hearts of voters. Each is heading to Washington to advance a bold social and economic justice agenda, with a strong focus on reversing inequality.
Why I Support the BDS Movement Against Israel
Chris Hedges believes: The fight for the Palestinians is our fight to win. We must stand with all of the oppressed in the BDS movement and stop the corporate capitalism and the neoliberal ideology that sustains oppression.
The Sanders Sensation
Bernie’s people-powered movement has already shattered one of the Democratic establishment’s holy myths.
What to expect of House Democrats
Nothing good happens in Washington unless good people outside Washington are organized and mobilized to make it happen.
Referendum 2020: A Green New Deal vs. racist, classist climate genocide
This piece will offer why this stunning referendum would be so politically powerful and – despite that – so difficult to persuade Democrats to adopt.
‘This is a crisis:’ New report details the age of ‘environmental breakdown’
The historical disregard of environmental considerations in most areas of policy has been a catastrophic mistake.
How women of color in Congress are pushing a grassroots agenda
Despite roadblocks, "the Squad” has pushed progressive legislation, scrutinized the powerful, and changed the conversation around who gets to hold political power.
San Francisco erases more than 8,000 marijuana-related convictions
District Attorney George Gascón partnered with Code for America to use a technological approach to help identify eligible cases, some going back decades.
On Leaders and Demagogues
Living in a democracy, it's important that we distinguish leaders from demagogues. So with the current crop of Presidential candidates: Who are the leaders and who are the demagogues?
Eugenics rears its unsavory head: Vaccine schism saves the intelligent & sacrifices the backward
Right-wing vaccine resistance could remove thousands of Trump voters in critical red states.