Why We’ll Need a Universal Basic Income
As new technologies replace work, the question for the future is how best to provide economic security for all.
The Lady and the Trump Impressions on the 1st Presidential Debate
Maybe the lesson that should be taken from this debate is that if these two deeply flawed candidates were really the best the two party system could muster, it’s about time the American left started building better options.
Doing What the Feds Won’t on Corporate Political Disclosure
A tiny Washington nonprofit is trying to do what Congress and the SEC won't.
Madoff in the White House?
How Trump’s conflicts of interest could become ours.
Scott Walker’s Political Magic
Corporate cash — flowing from Home Depot to Donald Trump — funded the governor's campaign to victory, despite public opinion.
An Open Letter to the People of the United States: Election or Revolution?
“Is our destiny in our own hands? Only if we have enough people of courage to accept responsibility for it. Are you one of them?”
Political Pressure Forces Wells Fargo Executives to Give Back $60 Million As Punishment
Wells Fargo was first exposed three years ago by journalists and it has taken this long to finally see some repercussions.
In the First Debate, The People’s Issues Came Second
We got a show. But not the answers we deserve.
Laboratories of Democracy
Perhaps it's time to for the Democrats' strategic geniuses and the rest of us to pay a bit more attention to state rep/senate races.
The Presidential Debate That Did Not Really Happen
It was not a debate so much as an opportunity to display Trump’s ability to weave an alternate reality for his acolytes.