Joe Biden’s voting rights strategy comes into focus
Laying down markers and filing lawsuits against states that cross lines.
We need to make government bigger (it’s not what you think)
Put simply: The House of Representatives does not have enough members to adequately represent all 334 million of us.
Why Wages Won’t Rise
The key strategy of the nation’s large corporations and financial sector has been to prevent wages from rising. And if you didn't already notice, corporations and Wall Street are calling the shots.
The dangerous myth of deregulation
Don’t fall for it. Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics.
Who’s really in charge of the Afghanistan War?
Trump is letting non-elected generals decide to hurl another 4,000 of our men and women into the Afghanistan War.
Attention, Democrats: Voters want more government, not less
Activist politicians for an activist government: it’s an approach more Democrats should consider.
We need to talk about the Jewish National Fund
To reach the goal of a just and durable peace in Israel/Palestine, it will be imperative to dismantle the JNF, a provocative agent in the dispossession of Palestinians.
Reasons for optimism
Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, we eventually rally and move forward.
The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
As Robert Reich puts it, "Political insiders don’t see that the biggest political phenomenon in America today is a revolt against the 'ruling class.'” Are Trump and Sanders agents of this revolt?
Jeff Sessions sets back the clock
How low can he go? And how far back can this Attorney General take us?