“Doomsday Clock” kept at 90 seconds to midnight for 2024
As the Doomsday Clock" ticks closer to midnight, global tensions and nuclear threats intensify.
Additional questions for James Comey
The FBI has a long history of secrecy and oppression, which those fighting for justice and democracy should never forget.
Worshiping markets, genuflecting to grand fortune
Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless...
If you make under $75,000, you lose
Behind closed doors, Republicans admit that their tax plan is all for their rich donors.
Why We’re All Becoming Independent Contractors
The most significant legal trend in the American workforce is “independent contractors,” which lessens companies' costs of having full-time employees. But is the trend contributing directly to low pay, irregular hours and job insecurity?
Ten points for Democracy activists
Take the viewpoint of the public good, not corporate profiteering.
The Gilded Age of animal advocacy: A transformative era for America’s moral compass
Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.
Resign, Jeff Sessions. It’s not about Russia, it’s about justice
Recusal is not enough. Jeff Sessions has shown that he is not fit to serve as Attorney General.
Corporations are suppressing wages—there’s an easy fix for that
Don’t believe the optimistic hype about wages “naturally” rising. About one-third of American workers are shockingly underpaid as a result of the federal government’s continued refusal to raise the minimum wage.
This is what austerity looks like
It is growing insecurity that drives fear, and the elites’ use that fear to divide us against each other.