Economy adds 213,000 jobs in June, unemployment edges up to 4.0 percent
The average hourly wage in manufacturing rose just 1.7 percent in the last year.
A bad winner, Trump will be a worse loser
Trump goes down because no one can "disinfect" reality.
Bernie Sanders’ Real ‘Political Revolution’ Could Happen This Fall
With Hillary Clinton likely to win the Democratic nomination, a push is on to get Sanders not to endorse her, and instead to accept the Green Party nomination for president -- a move that could both make the Greens a major party overnight, and destroy the centuries-old two-party duopoly poisoning American politics.
The 2016 Presidential Elections and the Cost of Democracy
For the moral importance of democracy is not the language of money but the ‘Will of the People.’
Broken truce: After Biden’s win, centrist Democrats turn on progressives
Rather than attacking AOC and other progressives as they've been doing for a week now, it’s about time the centrists in the Democratic Party stop talking and start listening to them.
Why Trumponomics fails
Trump seems utterly ignorant about global competition – and about what’s really holding back American workers.
Standoff at Standing Rock: Even Attack Dogs Can’t Stop the Native American Resistance
The battle against the Dakota Access pipeline is being waged as a renewed assertion of indigenous rights and sovereignty, as a fight to protect clean water, but, most importantly, as part of the global struggle to combat climate change and break from dependence on fossil fuels.
Five ways Trump’s “news conference” wasn’t a news conference
It’s another example of Trump’s attempt to control the media.
Cheating the School Kids: Corporations Don’t Pay Their STATE Taxes, Either
It's hard for a nation to build work skills when its corporations have largely stopped paying for education. Both federal and state corporate tax avoidance is at a stunning rate. This is millions of dollars that isn't going to state taxes, which fund public education.
Lock Up the Men, Evict the Women and Children
Part of the daily reality of poverty in America, evictions—along with mass incarceration—are the mechanisms used to destroy communities and profit from the misery of the poor.








