Personal interview: Lt. Col. William J. Astore What are the Prospects for Peace?
We speak with William J. Astore, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, about his ideas for improving the prospects for peace.
Videotaping A Crime Is Not A Crime
Videotaping a crime is not a crime. It's a public service. Police harassment of citizens who provide video evidence of police brutality has to stop.
The real leaky problem
Has Russia directly and brazenly interfered in our democratic system?
It’s time for corporations to get off the sidelines on social justice issues
It’s both good ethics and good business to support the rights of Black Americans and women when they are under assault.
What should progressives do to get a progressive government?
In other words, the candidates who are strongly progressive need to band together so they can win.
A good year’s pay for a good day’s work?
Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.
America’s farmworkers face poverty, neglect, and now deportation
Up to 70 percent of the people who put food on America's tables may be undocumented.
Policing causes violence, not the other way around
What liberal politicians and the media refuse to acknowledge is that crime is linked to the failures of capitalism, not to the lack of police. Indeed, police are part of the problem, not the solution.
Why Trump’s attacks on mail-in ballots are a desperate attempt to undermine democracy
“It’s ugly, and as un-American as you can get.”
The scary new math of factory farm waste
Factory farms are exempt from reporting requirements under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. Now a new tool can provide solid evidence of the environmental harm they can cause.