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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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.
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Proposed "Accountability Act" Gives Power to Fed to Shut Down Megabanks
Wells Fargo "definitely qualifies" to be shut down, said Maxine Waters (D-CA), who introduced the Megabank Accountability and Consequences Act last week.
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House GOP Passes Budget That 'Should Not Be Allowed in a Humane Society'
By passing their budget blueprint, Republicans have taken "the first step toward an immoral tax scheme that will hand trillions of dollars to millionaires and corporations."
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In Britain, a Jubilant Labour Party Contrasts With Hostility and Dissent Among Tories
Spurred on by the hope that Labour is a "government in waiting", tens of thousands congregated last week in sunny Brighton, eager to be part of Britain's brave new political chapter led by Jeremy Corbyn.
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Catholic Church to Make Record Divestment From Fossil Fuels
More than 40 Catholic institutions will make the largest ever faith-based divestment, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi.
