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 Things Everyone Should Know about Quebec's Student Movement
Summary: Here are ten things you need to know about the student movement in Quebec.
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, thousands swarmed Chicago for the NATO summit, Quebec’s student movement reached a critical mass, Greece remains on the brink and Occupy Wall Street’s librarians are suing the city and the NYPD over the destruction of the People’s Library.
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Hope That We Can Change the World: Russell Brand Visits Occupy Wall Street
Among the many triumphs of the Occupy Wall Street movement is the remarkable sense of occasion that accompanies the phenomenon.
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International Activism Surges Into Summer
Working people across the globe are continuing to feed off of each other's momentum as waves of international protest have strengthened in recent weeks.
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Poem: Do We Fear Change?
How can the young understand/How much we can change/When they haven’t seen it?
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Oligarchy and its Discontents
Most analysts and citizens of Western society suppose that we live in a democracy. But is it really a system where the people rule and its representatives execute the popular will? Or, do we live in an oligarchy disguised as democracy?
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Banking on the People
There is another way to do banking: rather than feeding off the community, banking can feed the community and the local economy. These George Bailey-style banks, now on the rise, base their decisions first and foremost on the needs of people and the environment.
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A Rural California Town Fights Globalization
Showing fierce resistance to Chase Bank and CVS pharmacy, which are attempting to move into this semi-rural Northern California town, Occupy Sebastopol and community groups say it is time to reverse globalization and trumpet re-localization.
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Baseline Welfare: A Primer
A monetary system constructed like ours can be taken quite simply as the planned, gradual dispossession of all entities that are not banks—a brutal daylight raid run straight through the economy and the citizenry.
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New York and Los Angeles Approve Responsible Banking
City councils in the nation’s two largest cities have approved laws aimed at forcing banks to invest more in their local communities.
