Friday, February 6, 2026

Keeping workers poor is bad for business

At America's biggest low-wage employers, chief executives now pocket 670 times more than their workers.
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Are progressives suffering from ‘Trump fatigue’?

Every time you take some comfort in a successful lawsuit against the dark side, a whole new set of evils are rolled out.

How to keep ‘public’ and ‘service’ in our public postal service

These profiteers and plutocratic ideologues constantly put out propaganda, castigating the Postal Service as a massive, money-sucking, deteriorating, bureaucratic behemoth.

Valhalla awaits! After white terrorism at Oslo mosque, what if Trump spoke about supremacists...

Why don’t moderate white people denounce the extremists among them?

TPP Is Not a Trade Fight—It’s a Fight for Democracy

The more we know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership the more we see what a raw deal it is for your democratic rights. It's time for a comprehensive movement to restore a forward-looking people's politics.

Don’t Be Fooled — Lindsey Graham and the GOP Establishment Are Just as Crazy...

That Graham looks at Trump and sees someone speaking in a completely different diction from himself, or hears the crazy in Trump’s pronouncements but not in his known, just underlines how hard it is for us to estimate our own failings.

The ‘Liberal’ Media Narrative on Bernie Sanders

“Please stay in the race, Bernie. You have nothing to lose — and the country has much to gain.”

Are Trade Deals Good for America?

If the winners refuse to budge, America could turn its back on free trade – and much else. Indeed, there’s no telling where the anger we’ve seen this primary might lead.

The Coddling of the Capitalist, White-Supremacist, Patriarchal American Mind

When does merely offensive speech becomes oppressive? When should one person’s freedom of expression, no matter how offensive, be defended and when does a pattern of abusive expression clearly undermine the ability of others to participate fully in a classroom discussion?

At Trump inauguration, his hollow rhetoric collides with reality

The contrast between his promises to America's forgotten and the greed of the new president and his circle of fat cat appointees is horrible.