Friday, May 17, 2024

This left challenger is showing how to use progressive economics to flip Trump country

Congressional hopeful Jess King is bringing an anti-poverty agenda to the working-class community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

19 things we learned about money in politics in 2019

The year in campaign finance had highs and lows (mostly lows).

I couldn’t help but wonder…is democratic socialism catching on?

Here’s hoping Cynthia Nixon and other democratic socialist candidates can make the case successfully this year.

Rejecting Michèle Flournoy, progressives demand Biden pick Pentagon chief ‘untethered’ from military-industrial complex

"The power progressives hold must be wielded now before it's too late, before Flournoy is crowned and the U.S. slips further into decline..."

2017 – A thunderous clash of politics, economies and policies

The Paris agreement may face a major test and even an existential challenge in 2017, if Trump fulfils his election promise to pull the US out.

What should progressives be insisting on?

This is going to be a list, borrowed from other lists...

Suicidal Rethugs gift Dems by reducing elections to absurdly simple choices: Want truth or...

Dems should simply repeat, “Do you want Trump in charge when the next global disease event strikes”?
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The Democrats’ one chance to cut child poverty in half

Poverty is a policy choice. Congress must make the Child Tax Credit permanent.

Nuclear powers once shared their technology openly – how Iran’s program fell on the...

As tensions remain at fever pitch between Tehran and Washington, Iran continues to breach limits agreed in the 2015 Iran deal, known...