Changing the Constitution Can't Be the Strategy—Yet

Yes, progressives should try to change the “rules of the game.” But such change is properly seen as a way to consolidate political power that has already been won.

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Teacher Demands Remain Unsettled As Schools Reopen and Midterms Loom

While many teachers and their unions in the major strike states are still in a watching and waiting mode, the revolt has spread and militancy is growing.

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The Crisis Next Time: Public Ownership As an Alternative to Corporate Bank Bailouts

The FIRE sector (finance, insurance and real estate) in the current corporate capitalist economy is dysfunctional and downright dangerous to the welfare of society. It's time for public ownership.

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An Economy that Works for All: Learning from the UK's Labour Manifesto

What Bernie Sanders is not talking about is a more thorough transformation of the economy that would democratize wealth and how it is created – like the UK Labour Party is proposing.

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The Coming Iran Crisis and the Urgency for a Progressive Foreign Policy Alternative

A progressive foreign policy would reject the use of the American military as a global police force, support social democracy internationally instead of unfettered global capitalism, and push strongly for demilitarization.

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Change Is Coming: Grassroots Organizing, Democratic Politics and the 2018 Elections

Progressive politicians can engage directly with citizens to build an organizational backbone that will last for multiple election cycles and operate in between elections as well.

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This Congressional Candidate Wants to Build a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up

Can farmers and consumers, co-op enterprise owners, and local artisans and musicians see themselves as part of a broad progressive movement to create a different kind of body politic and economy? Anthony Flaccavento thinks so.

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West Virginia Teachers Take a Big Step Forward, But the Struggle Continues

While the West Virginia teachers strike may appear like a bolt from the blue, it was not. We are in a period of mobilization for many progressive movements that goes back at least as far as Occupy Wall Street.

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Remaking the Message: Blueprint for a Progressive Economic Populism in 2018

Democrats and progressives appear, finally, to have recognized that organizing, meeting people face-to-face, registering voters, and getting them to the polls is how you really win elections.

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Lessons from Sea-Tac: Rebuilding the Labor Movement in the 21st Century

Civil rights groups, immigrant and tenant rights associations, police reform and healthcare advocates, women, LGBT, and faith institutions should be regarded as full members at the core of the labor movement.

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