Learning to Claim Our Victories
Sometimes I think the politically engaged life is like surfing.
Obama privately indicated leading ‘Stop-Bernie Campaign’
According to Politico, the Democratic establishment is counting on Obama to stop Trump and, perhaps, stave off Bernie as well.
Tax cuts for the rich, paid for with your health care
The plan to raid our health care is buried in the GOP tax scheme and budget process.
South Bend politician: I worked with Pete Buttigieg. He did not respect black residents’...
During Buttigieg’s tenure, black residents were 4.3 times more likely to be arrested for possessing marijuana than white people.
Trump’s most damning legacy
By saying and doing whatever he believes it takes for him to come out on top, Donald Trump has abused the trust we place in a president to preserve and protect the nation’s capacity for self-government.
Trump’s Attorney General pick introduced first bill to exempt fracking from drinking water rules
Nominated for a federal judge position in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, Sessions did not receive approval 30 years ago due to what congressional members deemed his troubling record on civil rights issues.
From plagiarism to Gaza: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on how a GOP campaign ousted Harvard’s...
He says plagiarism became a “pretext” to oust Gay, and discusses the larger right-wing war on education aimed at undoing progress on race, gender and addressing inequality.
Why do GOP presidents get to go hard right while democrats are just GOP...
I’m asking for the Democrats to be ruthless.
Exposing our ‘populist’ president as a naked plutocrat
It's not the volume of Trump's fabrications that is so gross, but their enormity.
Oceans, tuberculosis and killer robots – the UN’s diverse agenda in 2017
The first session of the UN conference to negotiate a legally-binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons.