What is worse than being poor?
What's the matter with school boards and lawmakers who are either allowing or directly causing this abuse?
We Need a Mass Movement Demanding Real Social Security and Medicare for All
Bernie Sanders is calling for enhanced Social Security benefits and expanding Medicare to cover all Americans. Now we need a independent mass people's movement to fight for the same thing.
The slow-motion equivalent of a nuclear war?
A "new Cold War" on an ever-hotter planet
By picking Tillerson and Perry, Trump’s pretty much just trolling us now
Trump voters don’t seem to have figured out yet that they’re being trolled and scammed.
Trump’s Estate Tax: An Aristocrat’s Gift to His Friends and Family
Trump won’t fight for the little guy. He’s only fighting for himself, and for the privileged boys and girls who are the only peer group he has ever cared about.
Silenced twice by the U.S. Senate, Coretta Scott King’s words live on
What made history was a woman: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, bringing to life the words of another historic woman, Coretta Scott King, whose words will inform and inspire the resistance.
Let House scrutiny re-brand Trump: Worst of the worst of crony capitalism
If Trump is not made stand-in for heartless Robber Barons, progressives will have squandered our greatest opportunity to name this era: Trump’s Age of Corruption.
An acid test for the self-righteous right
The fate of a suspected pedophile Senate nominee is now an acid test of Republican morality.
The USA’s systemic racism includes its wars
Hidden in plain sight is the fact that virtually all the people killed by U.S. firepower in the “war on terror” for more than two decades have been people of color.
Fools or knaves?
There are two kinds of liars. Fools lie because they don’t know the truth. Knaves lie because they intend to mislead. Trump is both.









