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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Equal Opportunity, Our National Myth
Americans are coming to realize that their cherished narrative of social and economic mobility is a myth.
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Notes from the New War Generation
I was born in 1991. I’ve lived over half my life in a nation at war.
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U.S. Divestment Movement Gaining Momentum
A months-old national campaign to convince U.S. colleges, universities and city governments to withdraw investments from the world’s largest oil and gas companies has seen some notable initial successes.
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Memo to Wealthy America: Some Facts About the Victims of Greed
The 1% has taken from the poor and the middle class for thirty years using a variety of strategies to redistribute wealth to the top. Here is the effect of this funds transfer.
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As Strikes Paralyze Athens, Neighboring Bulgarian Government Resigns
Thousands of anti-austerity demonstrators marched in Athens on Wednesday as unions staged a general strike to protest government spending cuts and tax hikes.
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A Company That Runs Prisons Will Have Its Name on a Stadium
On Tuesday, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton solidified a $6 million deal to rename its football building GEO Group Stadium, after the private prison corporation.
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Private Debt – Not Government Debt – Will Destroy America
There are two kinds of debt. One that’s relatively harmless. And one that can destroy us all.
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RFK Jr.: "Why I Got Arrested at the White House to Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline"
The pipeline is a conduit to the past. Rather than deepening our addiction to fossil fuels, it’s time we did what presidents reaching back to Richard Nixon have called on us to do and reduce our dangerous dependence on oil.
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Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another Bailout
A deal involving Bank of America that came to light recently shows how bank bailouts have continued, even if in a much quieter form than in the depths of the financial crisis.
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Corporate Power: Exposing the Global 1%
The Transnational Institute offers a visual insight into who dominates our planet at a time of economic and ecological crisis.
