Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles in 2017 that Give Us Reason To Hope
From a mining ban in El Salvador and a new law targeting transnational corporations in France, to the popular resistance fighting the Trump agenda in the U.S. and the global rollback of failed privatization schemes, progress is afoot.
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This Holiday, Striking Railworkers In Britain Demand More Drivers on Trains
Railway strikes are at the forefront of industrial action in the U.K. today, with overground train drivers embroiled in a long-running dispute over the role, and safety, of Driver-Only Operation (DOO) on their trains.
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U.K. Is on Course For the Longest Fall in Living Standards Since Records Began
Even after Britain's “worst decade for productivity growth since 1812 – when Napoleon was busy invading Russia,” the age of austerity is far from over – and the inequality gap in the world’s sixth richest country is only widening.
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How Northwest Communities Are Stopping Big Oil Projects
Earlier this month, a Washington state energy panel voted unanimously to oppose what would be the nation’s largest oil-by-rail terminal.
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A Lawsuit Seeks to Uncover How the DOJ Surveils Journalists
If First Amendment rights prevail, more truths can be expected to leak as journalists work to hold the administration accountable.
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The Man from Red Vienna, Part II
The great leftist thinker Karl Polanyi correctly observed that democracy cannot survive an excessively free market – and that containing the market is the task of politics. To ignore that truth, he understood, is to court fascism.
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E.P.A. Employees Spoke Out. Then Came Scrutiny of Their Email.
“This is a witch hunt against E.P.A. employees who are only trying to protect human health and the environment,” said Gary Morton, an E.P.A. employee in Philadelphia. “What they are doing is trying to intimidate and bully us into silence."
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The Worldwide Anti-Fracking Movement Is Only Getting Louder
As global warming becomes more of an imminent reality, the excuses that have been made for fracking aren't just falling on deaf ears—the ears are now angry, after being lied to for so long.
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An San Francisco City Bank is Not Only Possible — It’s A Great Idea, Budget Analyst Concludes
There's nothing standing in the way of a public bank except the finance industry and political will.
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The Man from Red Vienna, Part I
Market society, Karl Polanyi persuasively demonstrated, could only exist because of deliberate government action defining property rights, terms of labor, trade, and finance. “Laissez faire,” he impishly wrote, “was planned.”
