Tag: progressives
‘This is unacceptable’: Progressives reject Manchin plan to cut $15 minimum...
The $15 minimum wage is overwhelmingly popular with the American people. One person should not be allowed to hold relief hostage.
Will Trump’s mania to slice and dice the right help or...
Whatever the Georgia results, progressives still need more non-stop, grassroots consciousness-raising and many more elected lawmakers everywhere.
‘Yes, exactly,’ say progressives after Pence warns democrats will ‘make rich...
“You have to be all sorts of twisted to think ‘making poor people more comfortable’ is a bad thing.”
What Election Day revealed about progressive policies
Americans are hungry for change, as evidenced by what happened on Election Day.
Why progressives must not give Joe Biden a political honeymoon
Silence or grumbling acquiescence as the Biden presidency takes shape would amount to a political repetition disorder of the sort that ushered in disastrous political results under the Clinton and Obama administrations.
More than just talk: How American progressives are working for change
History teaches that progress takes time, those standing on the sidelines making unrealistic demands and criticizing those doing the work are only slowing it down.
Seeking the progressive leader
Will we cooperate and try to bring Biden and his administration towards our way of thinking, or shall we strike out on a new road towards the social democracy that many of us want?
Bernie Sanders and progressives in our winter of discontent
Bernie Sanders was the catalyst for galvanizing the grassroots progressive power that propelled his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. As this century enters its third decade, the torch needs to be grasped by others to lead the way.
Is the People’s Party moving?
We progressives cannot just sit there. We need to organize, and do it now, in order to be ready for whatever comes our way.
The collapse of Michèle Flournoy’s hopes for the top Pentagon job...
War preparations that increase the likelihood of war may excite laptop warriors. But the militarism they promote is madness nonetheless.
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When do the ‘primal, profit-driven forces of nature’—racked with buyer’s remorse—dethrone or defang MAGA...
If you credit mass buyers’ remorse by hoodwinked MAGA voters, that goes double for flabbergasted tycoons once open to disruption (and donor payoffs) but now bullied by the allegedly pro-business browbeater.
Outrage in Massachusetts after ICE detains high school student on way to volleyball practice
Milford residents demand answers and justice after ICE agents detain 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva, sparking statewide protests and national criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Billions in clean energy projects canceled amid Republican tax bill and fossil fuel agenda
Clean energy investments are vanishing as the Trump administration’s tax plan and rollback of Biden-era climate policies threaten America’s transition to renewables.
‘Another aid massacre’: Israeli military kills dozens near privatized Gaza food site
For the third consecutive day, Israeli forces fired on Palestinians seeking food at a controversial U.S.-backed aid site, raising international outcry and renewed calls for accountability amid a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe.
Greta Thunberg and 11 other volunteers set out on mercy mission to Gaza
A crowd of supporters gathered at the port with Palestinian flags to encourage the 12-person crew. The mission is sponsored by the Freedom Flotilla organization.