Thursday, October 22, 2026

What’s being compromised?

It’s not the priorities of the wealthy, that’s for sure.

Extreme poverty cut in half? Only in the minds of the capitalists

The median wealth of the world's adults is $2,222, down from $3,248 at the end of 2007.

The boldest step to close the racial wealth divide in generations

Connecticut’s Baby Bond program, which launches in July, and similar proposals across the country show that we may finally be willing to take the next step.

The eclipse of progressivism and the transatlantic return to the center

For the time being, the left and the movements powering it must organize online, support the struggles of low wage workers suddenly deemed ‘essential’ after being dismissed as unimportant for so many years and prepare for the struggles ahead.

Who is watching out for the EPA?

The agency will shed at least 1,200 jobs by September.

Trump’s infrastructure ‘plan’ is really just a privatization scam

The lesson to be learned is: If Donald Trump and Republicans are proposing something that sounds good on the surface, we all need to look deeper and figure out what con game they are running this time.

If Sessions had nothing to hide, why did he try to hide it?

People in power don't investigate themselves. Let's have a special prosecutor to connect the dots of the Russian connection.
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Will Gov. Snyder be next to be charged over poisoning of Flint’s water supply?

The Flint water crisis began when unelected emergency manager Darnell Earley, appointed by Governor Rick Snyder, switched the source of the city’s drinking water from the Detroit system to the corrosive Flint River.

The Ghosts of ’68 Haunt the Election of 2016

A slender, long-forgotten work of fiction foresees the rage and frustration of Donald Trump's America.
PDVSA's El Palito refinery in Carabobo, Venezuela. Photo: Marive Casimiro / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The US has struck a deal to control Venezuela’s oil reserves. It probably won’t...

As more details emerge about this controversial deal, big questions remain about what it could mean – both for oil markets and Venezuela’s national sovereignty.