Obama, deporter in chief, should pardon the undocumented
Noam Chomsky says Obama “should proceed to what is in fact an urgent necessity: to grant a general pardon to 11 million people who are living and working here, productive citizens in all but name.”
An ultimate meaning of the Bernie 2020 campaign: “Not him. Us.”
Both of the Sanders presidential campaigns were historic breakthroughs for challenging the moral rot of oligarchy in the United States and for pushing real class analysis into mainstream discourse.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 1, 2018
ICE served eviction notice in Syracuse, Trump tweaks capital gains to benefit the rich, US deports parents but keeps their children, and more.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, September 27
The 7 senators who will decide Kavanaugh’s fate, more police violence, a declaration from the third Kavanaugh accuser, and more.
One positive note
“I looked over the 45 people thus far nominated or selected to be in Biden’s administration, and I noted several positive things.”
What the G20 showed us about the current global order
These right wing leaders, show that much of the world, rather than embracing extended democracy and social liberalism, is backsliding into some kind of authoritarian nationalism.
Keep walking, nothing important to see here
“Shanahan who?”
Most Voters Favor Cutting Defense Spending. Politicians Say Otherwise
In a comprehensive new survey, most voters favored a decrease of at least $12 billion in the Pentagon’s spending and called for killing some costly military programs.
The truth about the US border-industrial complex
Congress should expand legal avenues of immigration, along with a roadmap to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already here—a policy with broad public support.
Wisconsin GOP’s lame-duck power grab ruled unconstitutional
A Wisconsin judge ruled on Thursday that laws passed by the Republican-controlled legislature in December to limit the powers of newly elected...