The first 100 days of resistance
It’s heartening to see the anti-Trump resistance move so quickly toward an affirmative vision that rejects the limited political choices of the past and demands broader horizons of possibility.
When You’ve Lost Bernie Sanders: How Netanyahu Destroyed the Israel Lobby
Sen. Bernie Sanders will not attend the March 3 speech from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to Congress. Is his announcement a turning point in the domestic politics of Mideast policy?
The fall of the house of ISIS
ISIS is on the decline, but the catastrophic political divisions in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to it are no closer to being mended.
Bernie fights to oppose new dirty energy bill
“Our job is to move away from fossil fuels toward sustainable energy and energy efficiency,” Sanders said in a statement. “This bill does the opposite.”
Donald Trump Disrobed (It Isn’t Pretty…)
Either we recognize our own responsibility and demand better of ourselves AND our political leaders, or one day soon we will wake up and discover that the country we know and love is gone forever.
Four takeaways from Trump’s latest tweet tantrum
All told, Trump’s tweet tantrum reveals a great deal about the man who’s soon to be president of the United States. None of it inspires confidence.
Winning hearts and minds
We’ve been on the road since April, meeting with leaders from poor and dispossessed communities in this country and sharing notes from our new book, You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty.
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...
Describing Trump: 6 euphemisms for conduct unbecoming a president
Words matter. It’s important to describe Trump accurately.
Anti-Austerity Syriza Party Sweeps to Power in Greece
The Syriza party claims victory in Greece to become the first member of the 19-nation euro zone to be led by a party rejecting German-backed austerity. The victory is considered a victory for all the people of Europe who are fighting against austerity.







