The Real Threat to American Sovereignty
Donald Trump is right to worry about American sovereignty. But the real threat to our sovereignty isn’t imports or immigrants. It’s global money influencing our politics.
2020 Vision: Four Steps to Get There
The progressive vision for 2020 is focused on the needs of average working people, on the strength of society rather than on winner-take-all individualism, on the cooperative efforts of underpaid people who have been forced out of the middle class.
The Greatest Show on Earth
How Billions of Words, Tweets, Insults, and Polls Blot Out Reality in Campaign 2016
As Republicans Defect, Will Clinton Be Tempted To Tack Right?
Hillary Clinton must not succumb to temptation. Voters have rejected the ideology of the elites for a reason: it has failed them.
The Voting Rights Act 2.0
Over half a century after the Voting Rights Act became law, the struggle continues.
The Disney-fication of Our National Parks
Congress is letting major corporations buy naming rights in America’s national park system.
The Populist Insurgency is Ratcheting Up
The Bernie movement created a hopeful, formidable and growing populist political channel that is both insistently democratic and independent of the Democratic Party.
Why the Shake-up at the Democratic National Committee Is Doomed
The DNC has to turn itself – and the Democratic Party – into a grass-roots membership organization, with local and state chapters that play a meaningful role in selecting and supporting candidates.
The Real Reckoning
Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. He is the loudest and clearest warning shot across the bow of the current American political-economic system.
Seven Women Who Broke Glass Ceilings in U.S. Politics Before Hillary Clinton
It is a great moment for women’s rights in the US. But Hillary Clinton is not the first to break the glass ceiling for women in U.S. politics.