Friday, March 29, 2024

A tax plan only a one percenter could love

It takes serious mental gymnastics to argue that Trump’s tax agenda would benefit the average working Joe or Jane.

50 years later, a speech by King has lessons for a president

Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.

In the public schools, it’s been 1984 for quite awhile

Betsy DeVos is the face of corporate reform, displaying in stark, unlovely form the processes that have been eating away at public education since the beginning of this century.

The spoils of war: Trump lavished with media and bipartisan praise for bombing Syria

The one constant of American political life is that the U.S. loves war. Martin Luther King’s 1967 denunciation of the U.S. as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” is more accurate than ever.

The left is losing the war on education. Here’s how we can win again.

After years of retreat, it’s time for a different tactic in the war on education.

Why tax resistance under Trump needs its antiwar edge

Tax resistance – in all its forms – does matter.

Youth fight back against Trump’s attempt to derail climate trial

“The Trump administration appears to labor under the mistaken belief that its decisions are beyond the jurisdiction of constitutional review.”

Why did Trumpcare fail?

Trump could probably sell BS to a feedlot – but this bill was even worse.
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Donald Trump’s behavior may encourage attacks, Islamic State spokesman says

Trump is said to be seeking ways to accelerate the campaign against Daesh.

Democrats: Do the right thing

Gorsuch could not have come this far without the plutocrats.