Tag: Joe Biden
Here are Biden’s day one actions on the climate and environment
Hours after his inauguration, Biden signed a total of 17 executive orders, memorandums and proclamations.
Nonviolent activists laid the groundwork to oppose a coup. They may...
Activists prepared for months, expecting Trump to steal the election. They were right, and he failed.
10 bold moves Biden can make without Congress
Biden can and must wield his presidential powers through Executive Orders and regulations. The problems America is facing demand it.
Indigenous-led movement credited with ‘huge victory’ as Biden plans to rescind...
"We formed an immensely powerful, unlikely alliance of voices and we never gave up."
Why Biden can’t govern from the center
It requires a recognition that there is no longer a “center” but a future based either on lies, violence and authoritarianism or on unyielding truth, unshakeable civility and radical inclusion.
Why Trump’s challenges to democracy will be a big problem for...
We predict that the biggest threats to democracy Trump poses won’t emerge until after he exits the White House.
‘A troubling history’: Biden’s AG pick Merrick Garland has record of...
“This is a centrist jurist who has a history—a troubling history, to me—of being deferential to police and being unwilling to hold police accountable for acts of brutality and misconduct.”
What Election Day revealed about progressive policies
Americans are hungry for change, as evidenced by what happened on Election Day.
Biden won. Now comes the hard part
Biden has pledged to be the president for all Americans, including the more than 74 million Trump supporters.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Mexicanization of the United States
The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations
A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.