Saturday, December 20, 2025

Workers matter and government works: Eight lessons from the pandemic

Here are some lessons we’ve learned from it.

Is This The Return Of U.S. ‘Gunboat Diplomacy’ Serving Corporations?

Has the “Swiss” firm Novartis becomes the 21st-century version of United Fruit and ITT?

Ten points for Democracy activists

Take the viewpoint of the public good, not corporate profiteering.
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The 4 biggest conservative lies about inequality

Don’t listen to the right-wing lies about inequality. Know the truth, and act on it.

Why it’s time for Congress to launch a manufacturing renaissance

It’s important to remember that rebuilding the nation’s industrial base will be a losing battle without stopping the serial trade cheaters who undercut U.S. producers and kill thousands of American jobs each year.

CEOs Call for Wage Increases for Workers! What’s the Catch?

The powerful peers of the corporate plutocracy are frightened by wealth inequality happening in America. While many are looking to fix it, their concern is not driven by moral outrage at the injustice, but rather by self-interest.
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The dangerous myth of deregulation

Don’t fall for it. Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics.

Sedition caucus mimics Trump’s worst sin: Demolition of content—legal, moral, democratic or electoral

The party of primitive deplorables, thinking it too could play with fire, is facing an outraged majority. Too bad it took so long.

This Article Is Not About Donald Trump

The menu of the news, as presently defined, lowers your chance of understanding the world.

Clinton’s Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold

Clinton’s smooth rhetoric should not change the fact that -- on a vast array of issues -- basic principles will require progressives to fight against her actual policy goals, every step of the way.