Biden administration announces final rule that requires airlines to issue automatic cash refunds when...
The new rule makes refunds to passengers easy when airlines cancel or significantly change their flights, significantly delay their checked bags, or fail to provide the extra services they purchased.
A bold new idea to boost wages
I’m talking about expanding something called the Earned Income Tax Credit, or EITC. And although it’s been around for decades, it can be the basis of a revolutionary change in the lives of millions of people.
The Empire’s Fools
“To all those fools out there who either believe in the lies and disinformation shoveled at them, or the ones who tell this writer "Voting for a 3rd party is a wasted vote": Karma is real!!”
How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
Even in troubled Afghanistan, there are alternatives whose sum could potentially slice through this Gordian knot of a policy problem.
The Not-So-Hidden Fracking Money Fueling the 2016 Elections
We need to separate oil and state if we’re going to have a chance of establishing a robust climate test that keeps fossil fuels in the ground and gets our government to stop funding fossils.
The coup has failed & now the US is looking to wage war: Venezuelan...
The United Nations, the Red Cross and other relief organizations have refused to work with the U.S. on delivering aid to Venezuela, which they say is politically motivated.
Could President Trump be impeached and convicted – but also reelected?
The launching of an “official impeachment inquiry” into President Donald Trump’s conduct has sailed America into largely uncharted waters.
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Prayer helped me survive poverty, but I needed government help too
Our social safety net is flawed but vital. Let’s work together to protect it from political attacks.
Socialism as a Cure for Exceptionalism
A sense of exceptionalism drives our foreign policy, and distances the 'takers' in the 1% from the more social-minded and once-thriving middle class. Will political revolution envisioned by Bernie Sanders restore that social-mindedness?
For Trump and Biden, it’s all about empire first
Is each man’s priority to lead a dominant U.S. empire?