Sunday, October 1, 2023

How union workers lead the fight for safer workplaces

“Everyone wins when we’re safer.”

The end of dissent

I am a foreign agent. Because my program at the Institute for Policy Studies receives some funding from a...

Three reasons why the super-rich should embrace a 70% tax rate

If they really want to "improve the state of the world," they should be using all their lobbyists and lawyers to make sure their tax money is supporting a cooperative national effort to protect the environment for their great-grandchildren and to remain competitive in the technologies of the future.

Missouri set to execute Marcellus Williams despite DNA evidence proving innocence—again

Unless we reform this corrupt system, racist politicians will be rewarded with higher political offices–for–”frying a black man.” 

Why We Must Try

Have Democrats gone from “Yes we can,” to “We shouldn’t even try?"

How Bernie Sanders Can Squander — or Expand — His Victory

If the Democrats can mobilize enough voters for a big victory, their party may well regain control of the Senate.

For-Profit Colleges Are Scandal Machines

This corrupt higher education "industry" ought to be put out of business.

Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?

The winners are the opportunists and war profiteers, and the losers are the people of Ukraine, working and poor people everywhere, but especially in the Global South, and our fading hopes of halting the climate crisis.

Why We Need Democratic Socialism to Fix Our Educational System

Children aren't products to be bought and sold. The profit motive should end at the front door of the public school.

The federal government shouldn’t be trying to salvage our broken food system—we need a...

Congress is considering an allocation for the mass killing of farmed animals.