Youth Revolts Are Back: Lebanon, Iraq Shaken by Demand for Services, End to Corruption...
Youth protests have popped up from time to time–in Turkey, Yemen, and now Beirut and Baghdad–where they are shaking up politics and calling for an end to corrupt governments.
On Medicare’s 56th birthday, activists deliver 125,000+ petitions urging Congress to expand the program
"We need Medicare for All. In fact, we needed Medicare for All yesterday."
Look! Up in the sky! Another colossal waste of our society’s talents and skills!
Our richest can now fly halfway round the world with their circadian rhythms totally intact.
What GOP New Yorkers Just Voted For: Torture, Syria Intervention and the Murder of...
Well, someone doesn’t know what he is doing.
In first, US labeled ‘backsliding’ democracy as global authoritarianism grows
A new report calls the rejection of the 2020 election results by many in the Republican Party as an “historic turning point” for the United States.
Legislation to improve Social Security bought to House
“We simply cannot and must not sit by and allow millions of our fellow citizens, who worked hard their entire lives, to spend their golden years living in poverty.”
Biden at one
In its first year in office, the Biden administration has done a reasonably good job of reversing the idiocies of its predecessor....
After 2 years, progressives need to be a part of the debate around public...
Simply demanding that all measures to protect public health be brought to an end without crafting policies to do this safely is not only selfish but a recipe for further disaster.
Republicans Want To “Make America Work Again”? That Would Be Real Change
Republicans, if you want to really 'Make America Work Again': Make U.S. corporations pay the $700 billion they owe in taxes on their $2.4 trillion in profits stashed offshore.
From France, an unexpected call for a ceiling on CEO pay
Our modern societies, top French politicos fear, just might ‘explode’ without one.