Ghost Dance: Five Facts about Our Vanished Nations
In his column, Thomas Magstadt lists a few facts about U.S. history from a new book about Indigenous people of the nation written from the perspective of non-Indigenous people. It's time we as a nation recognize our past wrongs so we can finally heal.
New bill to prevent Wall Street from continuing to finance fossil fuel industry
“For too long, our federal government has looked the other way while our nation’s largest banks bankroll the dirtiest fossil fuel projects.”
The empire expands
Not the American one, but Trump’s.
Memory loss in the garden of violence
How Americans remember (and forget) their wars.
The Week Ahead: Everything hangs in the balance
The biggest uncertainty is the economy.
America’s Iran hysteria
The irrationality of Iran vilification.
Republicans responsible for voter suppression in 2016
With a Republican majority currently held in all three branches, there will most likely be a lot more barriers and restrictions in the times ahead.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, June 21, 2018
Trump signs executive order halting family separation policy he created
President Trump signed an executive order halting what has become a notorious family separation policy...
Why union workers are a first line of defense to protect Social Security
Is the Republican plan to move the goalposts on those already paying into Social Security going to force younger Americans to work themselves into the grave?
Trump’s fog machine
Trump figures that at some point the murk will seem too complicated and too partisan. Could he get away with it?