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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People vs. Corporations: A Constitutional Amendment is on the Move
Move to Amend is one of the powerful groups helping lead a national movement to establish a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, aiming to end unlimited corporate spending on elections.
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Occupy Language: It's Time to Debunk a Few Words
A lot of what we say and do becomes habit-forming. Groundhog Day 2013 could serve as a reminder that some political habits should be kicked. Here are a few.
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Blind Leading the Blind: The Financial Crisis and the Decline of Democracy
In western Europe we are effectively witnessing a growing inability of the ruling elite, who know less and less how to rule.
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A Martyr in the Fight for Free Online Access to Research
In death, Aaron Swartz has become a political martyr for the cause he championed in life: making scientific and scholarly research freely available.
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The Real "Recovery": Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control
Since June of 2009, 88% of all U.S. growth went to corporate profits, while wages and salaries represented 1% of growth. There's never been a worse recovery for jobs and worker pay -- and never a better one for corporate profits.
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Obama Transparency Check: Wikileaks, the Espionage Act and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
From his unprecedented six-time use of the Espionage Act, to his administration's failure to uphold First Amendment rights for Wikileaks, to the suppression of information about TPP negotiations, Obama has been anything but transparent.
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Seven Brides For Seven Corporations
Days before the third anniversary of the Citizens United ruling, Occupy Wall Street organized an extravagant piece of political street theater: a wedding in which seven brides were to marry seven corporations.
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Wagging the Dog on Bahrain, Where U.S.-Backed Crackdown on Democracy Continues
Amid so many non-news stories in the past few weeks, the U.S. government aiding in Bahrain's brutal crackdown of nonviolent pro-democracy protests has gone completely unnoticed.
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Your Daily Dose of Satire: "N.R.A. Defends Right to Own Politicians"
We laugh, because we will cry if we don't.
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Money For Nothing: An Hourly Breakdown of Congressional Influence
Members of Congress spend just four hours a day doing the work citizens elected them to do.
