The Revolt of the Anxious Class
Most middle-class individuals are good people, not bigots or racists. They work hard and they have a strong sense of fairness. But their world has been slowly coming apart. And they’re scared and fed up.
Bernie Sanders Seeks to Cut Carbon Emissions by 80%
“What the scientists tell us is that we have a relatively short window of opportunity to bring about the fundamental changes that we need in our global energy system to transform our energy system."
A Holiday Note to Congress: Half of Your Country is In or Near Poverty
Members of Congress, comfortably nestled in bed with millionaire friends and corporate lobbyists, are in denial about the true state of the American middle class.
President Obama Wants to Close Gun Loopholes Without Congress
President Obama is fed up with Congress blocking every attempt at enacting new gun control measures. He is now taking steps to try to close gun loopholes without them.
Bernie Sanders Visits the Neighborhood Where Freddie Gray was Murdered
Senator Sanders likened what he saw in the impoverished area to a Third World country: “Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you are in a wealthy nation."
VIDEO: 6 Times U.S. Government Excluded Millions Based on Race or Religion
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and other bigots on the far right are nothing new in American history.
The Sanders Polling Anomaly
New polling shows that Sanders presents Democratic voters with the existential choice of attempting to at least start digging out of the corrupt plutocracy, or instead burrowing in even deeper with another Clinton.
Look Who’s Buying American Democracy
How much more evidence do we need that our system is in crisis? How long before we make it work for all of us instead of a handful at the top? We must not let them buy our democracy.
Bernie Sanders Wins TIME Readers’ Poll for Person of the Year, Still Snubbed from...
Bernie Sanders won the people's vote - coming in first for the TIME Readers' poll for person of the year. So why didn't TIME include him on the shortlist of final candidates?
Candidates for 2015’s “Hypocrite of the Year”
There are so many candidates. But the people included here stand out in their various areas of nefarious behavior: warmaking, tax avoidance, consumer gouging, environmental destruction, and criminal arrogance.