Medicare for all: It’s a matter of life and death
Just 17 percent of people support the current Senate health care bill.
House passes $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill with $15 minimum wage increase
The bill includes a $15 minimum wage increase, an extension of unemployment insurance, survival checks, and $20 billion for a national vaccination program.
The GOP a year after Trump
For the new GOP, states’ rights be damned because it’s all about consolidating power in Washington, under Trump.
The same old scare tactic about socialism
Don’t let them scare you with words like “socialism.” These policies are just common sense.
Why teachers don’t trust Betsy DeVos, and neither should you
While DeVos gives the silent treatment to news organizations, public officials, rights advocates, and educators, she maintains an open-door policy for those prone to agree with her.
Resist: How to keep ‘it’ from happening here
Resistance is just another word for constructive policy.
Corporations are suppressing wages—there’s an easy fix for that
Don’t believe the optimistic hype about wages “naturally” rising. About one-third of American workers are shockingly underpaid as a result of the federal government’s continued refusal to raise the minimum wage.
Saving democracy by destroying it
America desperately needs a dose of its own medicine of democracy promotion.
Activists protect DC Venezuelan Embassy from US-supported coup
A group of us, all activists opposed to the prospect of the Venezuelan opposition taking over the Embassy, have been living inside the building for the past two weeks, working side-by-side with the skeletal Venezuela diplomatic staff that has been told by the State Department that they must leave by April 24.
Beyond golden shower diplomacy
Are we trying preserving the positive legacy of an empire in decline?