The Fraud of the New ‘Family-Friendly’ Work
The new family-friendly policies seem ideally timed, but they apply only to a tiny group considered “talent”—highly educated and in high demand— to help to recruit and keep them. Let's not celebrate this new era just yet.
A Haven from the Animal Holocaust
Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen is an animal sanctuary for rescuing farm animals. Because the abuse of animals at the hands of factory farm operators is unfathomable and “we are saying they are as important as any other individual.”
Yes, Obama’s $400,000 speech is a problem
What’s to be done? Run candidates who have no interest in flattering the ultra-wealthy or becoming wealthy themselves.
Why 2020 won’t be won by centrists
In reality, what’s going to beat Trump are new ideas that mobilize America, that let Americans see what the wealthy and powerful who bankroll Trump have done to this nation.
Progressive populist coalition launches #DemExit petition
#DemExit has trended repeatedly over the last several weeks as people have been outraged to see that once again working people have been left in the cold by the establishment parties.
How the Supreme Court could make your life more dangerous
If Republican appointees on the Supreme Court succeed in gutting regulatory agencies, we all lose.
A big day for Trump’s budget pick, Social Security – and millionaires
“We have a president who ran on a set of principles that he would not cut Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, yet he is nominating someone whose views are very, very different.”
Wall Street Banks on Buying the Democrats’ Love
Big money is threatening the Democratic party by saying that major campaign donations are dependent on “a friendlier attitude toward the banks.” This just shows what little respect banks actually have.
Middle East Reacts to Murder of 3 Muslim-American Students in North Carolina
Middle Easterners are calling the murders a "crime against humanity” and blame Islamophobia for the recent tragedy in North Carolina. Is a hostile environment forming against American Muslims in the U.S.?
That Time Ronald Reagan Opened Iran and Illegally Sold Weapons to Khomeini (Video)
President Obama and other permanent members of the UN Security Council removed 5 years of conventional arms embargo imposed on Iran in 2007. Will we soon hear a lot of talk from "Reagan-worshiping Republicans" about this provision?