How union drives in Mexico help workers on both sides of the border
These are vital, promising steps under the USMCA, which requires Mexico to enforce the labor rights needed to lift up workers there and, in turn, level the playing field for workers north of the border.
Inhumane, criminal: What the US Congress is refusing to do for desperate Americans
While Americans are suffering, these politicians in the Senate don’t lack for anything. In this Congress more than half of its members are millionaires.
Why were the Saudi streets so quiet?
While Mexicans pour out on the streets to protest Trump’s anti-immigrant policies, there was nary a Saudi protester chanting “Trump: Go home.”
Republicans craft health care plan to screw Trump voters
There is at least a small irony in the fact that millions of Trump voters will be frontline losers if Trumpcare gets signed into law.
The life of the party: 7 truths for democrats
If the Democratic Party creates a large enough void, a third party won’t draw away votes. It will pull people into politics.
US sanctions: Economic sabotage that is deadly, illegal and ineffective
Global condemnation should also focus on the country responsible for the deadly, illegal and ineffective economic warfare at the heart of this crisis: the United States.
For the good of the party: It’s time for Donna Brazile to go
Brazile's duplicitous behavior is a symbol and symptom of the Democratic Party leadership.
How the Trump administration wields the federal government’s power over public education
With the help of the U.S. Supreme Court and congressional Republicans, Trump is turning public education into the great unequalizer.
Who won in 2016? Big money.
Neither Clinton nor Trump took on the role of corporate mega-donors this election.
Charles Barkley’s wise words to Democrats on Alabama
"This is a wake-up call for Democrats."