The Sanders Sensation
Bernie’s people-powered movement has already shattered one of the Democratic establishment’s holy myths.
Clinton’s Defense of Big Money Won’t Cut It
This surely will be one of the issues that Sanders carries into the convention. And it is one that Democrats and Clinton should adopt as central to their platform.
The debt ceiling debacle is NOT a ‘partisan standoff’
Did Republicans alone manufactured this looming disaster?
The New Battle of Seattle
While fossil-fuel corporations are exploring the world’s oil, protesters in Seattle are banding together to stop Shell’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. And they don't plan on backing down to these catastrophic effects on climate change.
Overtime: Finally, a Break for the Middle Class
There is finally a bit of good news for hard-working Americans—the U.S. Department of Labor just proposed raising the overtime threshold. More than a million workers will soon get a raise.
“We are what America looks like”: The trials of ‘the Squad’
“Our squad is big. Our squad includes any person committed to building a more equitable and just world and that is the...
2084: Orwell revisited in the Age of Trump
It’s obviously time to act on a global scale. Tell that to Big Brother.
US militarism’s toxic impact on climate policy
That will require the United States to seriously reduce the military budget and commit to peaceful, practical diplomacy with China and Russia.
Despite cutbacks, ExxonMobil continues to fund climate science denial
ExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science.
Biden refuses to mention the worsening dangers of nuclear war. Media and Congress enable...
“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.”