How can America really be exceptional?
Can America still follow its principles of liberty and equality but have a far broader set of free social services (education and healthcare like the fire and police departments)? I think that it can. And if it does, it will have the sort of society that we want – not an oligopoly or crony capitalist one.
How did we become so backward? S. Korea has US equivalent of 1,311 coronavirus...
When did we become so backward?
The COIN doctrine comes to Portland?
The president has also promised to deploy similar militarized police to other cities, claiming that those run by Democrats are somehow in the thrall of the ‘radical left’, despite the latter being among the most strident critics of the former.
Follow Alabama’s lead on child care
If one of our poorest states can rise to meet this basic human need, why can’t Congress?
Who Lost the White Working Class?
Nothing in politics is ever final. Democrats could still win back the white working class – putting together a coalition of the working class and poor, of whites, blacks, and Latinos.
Trump Like Sanders? Hardly. More Polar Opposites in Mindsets, Values & Proposals
Similar at heart? Parallel in the most important ways? Sanders stands for all the Trump hates. And vice versa. Trump could be the 1% poster child that drives Sanders' dramatic anti-elitist, anti-inequality, anti-climate change denial movement. A true challenger to the status quo (party and nation) and the oligarchic "establishment" that runs this country, Sanders is more polar opposite to Trump than alleged first cousin.
Social Security’s Enemies Are Down – But They’re Not Out
“Tax the rich, feed the poor …” Say what you will about its politics, but it wouldn’t add a penny to the deficit.
How the Gaza war can be big news and invisible at the same time
The horrors in Gaza are being propelled by the U.S. war machine, but you wouldn’t know it from the standard U.S. media.
Is it Watergate yet?
We can hope that this administration's attempts to bully the press corps will not only fail, but backfire.
Populist Proposals Win in 2014
While the Democrats had a poor showing at the polls in 2014, populist and progressive ideas surged. An array of unabashedly populist ballot initiatives were passed by pollsters.