A vote to retire two coal-fired power plants passes despite Trump’s cry to save...
"It is not about coal. This decision is about economics."
Imagine a world where workers have power
Robert Reich breaks down the political choices that have systematically dismantled worker power over the past 40 years — and how we can build a world where workers have a real voice again.
VIDEO: #9 Make Polluters Pay Us
We can clean our environment and strengthen the economy if we start charging polluters for poisoning our skies. It's time we stop investing in dirty fuels.
Bernie and the Big Banks
The bottom line: Regulation won’t end the Street’s abuses. The Street has too much firepower. And because it continues to be a major source of campaign funding, no set of regulations will be tough enough.
Expanding Supreme Court may be only way to protect Democracy
2020 Democratic candidates may not be able to avoid this issue for long.
The World Bank’s deregulation guide goes down in flames—18 years too late
A pay for play data manipulation scandal spelled the end of the ideologically driven 'Doing Business' report.
Notre Dame fire dramatizes the truly irreplaceable
If not cathedrals, what then are irreplaceable? Human life, above all, with animal and plant life close behind – and ideals and quests.
The remarkable Mothers of Social Security
The best way to celebrate this Mother’s Day is for all of us to commit to fighting to expand Social Security, in memory of those brilliant, hard-driving, creative, and compassionate Mothers of Social Security.
For Nader, Defiance Is a Way of Life
Ralph Nadar has spent his life defending citizens, who have became irrelevant. While he still writes letters to the powerful, it makes him one of the moral and intellectual giants of our age.
Reign of error
It appears that the political opposition is still more interested in donor money than addressing the needs of voters.