Sunday, August 23, 2026

If you make under $75,000, you lose

Behind closed doors, Republicans admit that their tax plan is all for their rich donors.

Emilio Gutierrez Soto and the fight to protect journalists

Democracy depends on a vigorous free press, and it is up to all of us to demand it, and to defend it.

To Joe Biden, Trump’s potential successor Mike Pence “is a decent guy”

When Joe Biden told an audience that Mike Pence “is a decent guy,” Pence had already been vice president for more than...

Reactionaries in ragged retreat: A wingnut brew of bottom-dwellers

Trump politics are in shambles, whatever he and lackeys try boomerang, and why should anything change in the next five months?

As coup evidence mounts, progressives eye Georgia to jail Trump, not feds

The January 6 committee, Justice Department, and activists are diverging.

Don’t Stop the Revolution: The Sanders Movement After Orlando

This is the most progressive Democratic platform in history, but only because millions of people demanded it – with their votes and their activism. More activism is needed now.

The Stumpf Banking System

Wells Fargo's CEO was caught stealing from low-income bank customers, and then put the blame on low-level employees.

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.

Why Russia won’t leave Syria

Were the Tomahawk strikes impulsive?

Kalief Browder, Albert Woodfox and the Torture of Solitary Confinement

There are an estimated 80,000-100,000 prisoners held in some form of solitary confinement in the United States. The United Nations says the practice often amounts to torture. It is cruel and unusual punishment, and must be abolished, once and for all.