How to keep businesses (and small towns) alive when owners retire
In Kansas, a new matchmaking service is helping transition small businesses to new hands. Could it be a model for the rest of rural America?
Forget fascism. It’s anarchy we have to worry about
We are not barreling toward fascism. Fascism requires a program and unity of purpose.
Trump’s fog machine
Trump figures that at some point the murk will seem too complicated and too partisan. Could he get away with it?
Bernie Sanders to Trump: “We will fight you every step of the way” on...
“Mr. Trump, you cannot run a government by rejecting science.”
U.S. admits role in civilian deaths in Mosul
These elite attitudes toward ordinary Iraqis are probably more dangerous to the future of the country than a few mere terrorist attacks.
As Trump complains about alleged surveillance, Republicans gut internet privacy rules
The vote will give companies like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T more power to collect people’s sensitive data, including their internet browsing history, and to sell this information.
Trump’s double standard on freedom of speech
The president wants liberties for himself that he doesn’t grant to others.
A single-payer health care fix even without a working majority
It’s likely that the Trump-Ryan failure will push state legislatures to consider expanding Medicaid—putting even more people under the public insurance system.
Tracking the numerous tactics used to attack environmental protections around the globe
A recent study published by the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution finds that laws designed to protect the environment and biodiversity from the harmful impacts of human activities are under assault around the globe.
May Day mass action will be a historic ‘strike from below’
“We need to show this administration, Congress and large corporate interests that our human and economic worth is more powerful than their agenda of hate and greed.”