How to fight Trump without caving to corporatists
The DNC should provide leadership at times like these. But there’s still no leadership, several months into a second Trump regime that’s much worse than the first.
Breaking with Wall Street: LA puts it to the voters
The numbers are there to support the case for a city-owned bank, but a critical ingredient in effecting revolutionary change is finding the political will.
Congressman asks gas industry to join him as ‘3 percenters,’ fails to mention movement’s...
“Because together, as the Three Percenters, we represent everything that's right about this world.”
Imagine Something Different
“The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong,” President Obama assured us. From whose lives has the shadow of crisis passed? And for whom is this Union strong?
Once Again, the VA Turns Down Navy Vets for Agent Orange Benefits
A federal court had ordered the VA to reassess its policy denying Agent Orange benefits to Navy sailors who served in the Vietnam War. The VA’s conclusion: They still don’t qualify.
It’s Time to Ignite a Political Revolution
It is time U.S. citizens join together and demand a political revolution. It is important to pick the right presidential candidate for the job.
‘A very dark day for democracy’: Scott Walker signs Wisconsin GOP’s ‘legislative coup’ into...
"This is the kind of thing autocrats do," declared journalist Ari Berman.
Why Progressives Must Stay United
A progressive movement is needed to overcome widening economic inequality and the legacy of racial inequality in America. We must take back our economy and democracy from the moneyed interests that now control both.
Blueprint for Post-9/11 Surveillance: U.S. Began Bulk Collection of Phone Call Data in 1992
Evidently, the federal government has been secretly tracking phone calls years before the 9/11 attacks. It was the Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration back in 1992 that paved the way for NSA in 2001.
Women in India stand up to reactionary forces, call for ‘equality, gender sensitivity, and...
“We are taking the pledge that we will uphold Renaissance values, we will stand for equality for women, we resist the attempts to make Kerala a lunatic asylum, and we will fight for secularism.”