The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Revealed: populist leaders linked to reduced inequality
Populists both the left and right have closed the gap between rich and poor – but also eroded freedoms.
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'Outrageous Violation of First Amendment': Leaked Docs Reveal Trump Tracked Journalists and Rights Advocates at Border
The government is keeping a list of journalists and "instigators" that were involved with the so-called migrant caravan from the last months of 2018 and early 2019 in a database.
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Rebel Cities 22: Nationwide Protests Rock Vietnam's Authoritarian-Neoliberal Government
Widespread ongoing protests against the country's Special Economic Zones – through which Vietnam favors deregulated business with China – are shaking the stability of the government.
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Democrats’ Net Neutrality Bill Would Fully Restore Obama-Era FCC Rules
Instead of writing a new set of net neutrality rules, the "Save the Internet Act" would simply nullify FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's repeal of the 2015 FCC order – and forbid the agency from repealing the rules in the future.
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Survival of the Richest: All Are Equal, Except Those Who Aren’t
Like a gilded coating that makes the dullest things glitter, today’s thin veneer of political populism covers a grotesque underbelly of growing inequality that’s hiding in plain sight.
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Oakland teachers return to class after 7-day strike. Here’s what they won—and lost.
The district doubled teachers’ pay raises, for starters.
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Cue Harry and Louise: Medicare for All vs. the Usual Suspects
For all its uncertainties, American life has its reassuring traditions: Fall brings football, spring brings baseball, and proposals for universal health insurance bring healthcare industry scare campaigns.
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Extinction Rebellion
The British-based group Extinction Rebellion has called for nonviolent acts of civil disobedience on April 15 in capitals around the world to reverse our “one-way track to extinction.”
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‘We Will Keep Fighting’: Inside the Push to Put Democratic Women in Power for the Long Haul
The 2018 midterm elections saw a record number of women elected to Congress. Now, women are organizing to make the ‘moment’ into a movement.
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Occupy Auto Loans: Delinquencies On the Rise Signal Shaky Foundations
The amount of subprime auto debt is far less than the amount of subprime home mortgage debt just before the 2008 recession – but the rising trend is nevertheless troubling economists.
