Wednesday, August 26, 2026

A Model for Democracy at the Grassroots Level

A grassroots movement in Iowa is an uplifting example of organized people power in action taking back democracy. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is fighting the avarice and arrogance of big-money corporations.

France’s 9-11 Moment and a World in Peril

The attack on Charlie Hebdo and France's new-found resolve to wage war on radical Islam puts Europe front and center in the war on terror. Potentially, is this Europe's 9-11?

Terrorizing the vulnerable

“We only want to live in peace, work, have a home, be a family.”

Medicare for all: It’s a matter of life and death

Just 17 percent of people support the current Senate health care bill.

The partisan use of preemption is surging

Far from advancing any big public goals, preemption is now being used to advance corporate agendas.
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What do Democrats stand for?

If Democrats stand for one thing, it must be overcoming this unprecedented economic imbalance.

Bernie leads bipartisan effort to end US involvement in Saudi war in Yemen

In a recent letter to the chairmen and ranking members of the armed service committees in the U.S. House and Senate, Sen....

Why Closing the Digital Divide Will Strengthen America and Help US Workers

With huge disparities in internet access across America, building out the information superhighway will be as essential as modernizing roads and bridges as the nation strives to rebound from the pandemic, grow a more powerful economy and forge a brighter future for all.

Still in the rabbit hole: 1 year after the Capitol siege the American right...

From the beginning, it was obvious 2021 wouldn’t bring an end to many things that the progressive left hoped they’d seen the...

What Really Poisoned the Water in Flint, Michigan

Flint reveals that there is a much deeper contamination poisoning our country's political morals: namely, an insidious right-wing belief that poor people (particularly people of color who are poor) are underserving moochers whose misfortunes can be ignored.