A progressive revival: Cleveland, Preston and municipal social democracy
One of the progressive left’s goals has to be to empower citizens and this is most easily done at the local level.
The Costly Truth of Emergency Spending in Iraq and Afghanistan
Despite troop reductions, the Pentagon's war budget is increasing.
The UN Paris Climate Change Agreement: One World, One Climate?
The Paris climate change agreement may be an ambitious and balanced plan and a historic turning point in the goal of reducing global warming, but according to French ambassador to the United Nation, Francois Delattre, - : “On espere, -- One hopes.”
The big stitch: Making America good again
A teacher in a struggling steel town reflects on the kind of education the next generation needs.
Election, legal disasters, surging Covid cases, economy stumbling: Just “too much winning”
Major irony: the perceived, 2016 “change” candidate was and is utterly incapable of change.
Embattled Kuwaiti defense contractor building foreign influence operation with firms tied to Mueller probe
A Kuwaiti defense contractor that plead guilty to stealing U.S. government funds is assembling a team of lobbyists and foreign influence operatives...
Coalition of “grassroots diplomats” take the lead on international solidarity with South Africa in...
Global solidarity rises: activists spearhead campaign for justice in Gaza at International Court.
The undemocratic reality of capitalism
Democracy is about “one person, one vote”—the notion that we all have an equal say in the decisions that affect us. That is not what we have now.
“A Barrett confirmation is a catastrophe”: What Democrats can do to block Trump’s Supreme...
“A 6-3 majority on the court is basically a bomb coming at what is left of our protections against corruption in politics, against corporate money, against what is left of the Voting Rights Act.”
10 worst things about the Trump presidency
We cannot afford to forget just how terrible Trump’s time in the White House was for this nation.