New ‘dark money’ group devotes multi-million dollar budget to ads helping Democrats
A new “dark money” group funded by secret donors plans to spend almost all of its $10.4 million budget on ads helping...
Winner take everything: Will Paul Kagame be Rwanda’s president for life?
“The issue is how and when to recognize the moment when staying in power becomes counterproductive.” —Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
Canadian prime minister bans assault weapons 7 days after series of shootings
"There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada."
Wall Street’s Threat to the American Middle Class
It's nice that presidential aspirants are talking about rebuilding America’s middle class. But in order to do so, they have to take direct aim at Wall Street, the ones that finance their campaigns.
States halt new water shutoffs, leaves previously disconnected households without water amidst coronavirus pandemic
Our country needs a national ban on water shutoffs for nonpayment with immediate restoration of service to all families who have lost water for an inability to pay their water bills."
Zelensky warns against Russian ‘blood oil;’ in fact, buying any oil is paying blood...
How can the west sanction Russia?
Pulling the lever for doomsday
Or How Donald Trump Changed Everything (2016-2020)
House Republicans stymie Senate plan to pass War Powers resolution
"Speaker Ryan is not allowing a vote on my resolution to stop the war in Yemen because many Republicans will vote with us and he will lose the vote."
US progressives need a foreign policy
Most of these candidates have missed the opportunity to really critique their country’s costly failures on the world stage.
The man in the bathtub, December 1, 1940
The 1930s were a rough time for all who labored.... Or sought work.