It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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Texas Activists Combine Social Media With Old-School Tactics to Resist Conservative Agenda
Intersectional movements are helping the left gain ground, not just play defense.
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ANTIPA: Take a Knee to Toxic Masculinity and White Patriarchy
The suppression of women is of course nothing new, but astonishing aspects of it are reemerging so profoundly and swiftly in our “democracy” that it is staggering.
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PG&E power lines linked to Wine Country fires
The spotlight has turned to PG&E, the giant San Francisco-based utility, raising questions about how well it maintained its equipment and whether it adequately cut back trees from power lines to reduce fire risk as required by state law.
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How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation
A new economic study found that a UBI of $1,000/month to all adults would add $2.5 trillion to the U.S. economy in eight years.
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A Constitutional Impasse: What's Next for Catalonia and Spain?
Within the Spanish constitution, the Catalonian referendum was not legal – but this doesn't mean it was illegitimate. Pro-independence parties won a majority in the last Catalan elections, supplying the mandate for an independence vote. So what happens now?
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Fightback Begins Over Trump's "Illegal and Irresponsible" Clean Power Repeal
New York AG Eric Schneiderman said he'll sue the Trump administration to prevent its “irresponsible and illegal efforts to turn back the clock on public health,” and more than a dozen states stand behind him. So do Apple, Amazon, Google and others.
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The Power of a Transformative City
Cities offer a more level playing field where people power can still take on and defeat corporate power and thereby prove that political mobilisation can deliver results.
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Progressive Candidates Seek To Upend the Democratic Establishment In Ohio
A slate of challengers backed by the Working Families Party, running under the banner of “Yes We Can," were inspired by the Bernie Sanders campaign and seek to unsettle a narrative that claims “Columbus Is Already Great.”
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No-Fault Crash: A New Book Explains How Financial Big-Wigs Skated after the Subprime Disaster
As Jesse Eisinger writes in his new book, the Justice Department “has lost the will and indeed the ability to go after highest-ranking corporate wrongdoers.”
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Germany's Dangerous Lean: What the Far-Right Victory Means for the Rest of Europe
As in the case of Donald Trump's electoral win in the U.S., the AfD triumphed last month in part because many former non-voters were stirred by its virulently racist, anti-immigrant message – and their votes flipped the results.
