Friday, December 26, 2025

Will Trump’s mania to slice and dice the right help or hurt the progressive...

Whatever the Georgia results, progressives still need more non-stop, grassroots consciousness-raising and many more elected lawmakers everywhere.

What should we do about the debt ceiling, and why should you care?

Fighting over whether to raise the debt ceiling is a dangerous distraction. Abolish it!

In or out of power, with no positive agenda in sight, today’s rightwing flunks...

Still undetermined: the degree to which this Cult Leader will sabotage his own hijacked party’s chances in the mid-term.
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VIDEO: Paul Ryan’s 7 Terrible Ideas

Despite the speech’s sweeping oratory and careful stagecraft, Ryan clings to seven dumb ideas that are also cropping up among Republican presidential candidates.

Despite Terrorism Fears, 59 Percent of Americans Welcome Syrian and Iraqi Refugees (Videos)

Millennial youth and Democrats are generally twice as favorable to taking in or otherwise helping refugees from the Syria and Iraq Wars as Republicans, and Trump Republicans are the least charitable toward them of all.

The Populist Insurgency is Ratcheting Up

The Bernie movement created a hopeful, formidable and growing populist political channel that is both insistently democratic and independent of the Democratic Party.

Think tipping is out of control? Watch this.

From tipping to living wage: The fight for economic justice in the service industry.

Obamacare’s biggest problem is profit, not government

Democrats’ political prospects will suffer if they cling to Obamacare’s less popular and less effective provisions.