5 Reasons the Top Tax Rate Should Be 80%

Informed Americans understand that an economic war has been waged against the middle and lower classes – and as history shows, progressive taxes actually work.

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Hundreds of Professors At University of Chicago Push For Fossil Fuel Divestment

In a symbolic show of solidarity with student activists, professors urged the elite private university to purge its $7.6 billion endowment of coal, oil and gas companies, citing the “universal and existential” threat posed by climate change.

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Unjust Punishment: Will 13 Climate Activists Face Jail Time For Heathrow Protest?

Mel Strickland and a dozen other activists cut through a security fence at London's Heathrow Airport last July and occupied one of the runways for six hours in an effort to slow the ravages of climate change.

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As They Drank Contaminated Water, Flint Residents Charged Highest Water Rates In The Country

A Flint resident paid $864.32 a year for water in January 2015 – about $500 more than what the typical family in the rest of the country paid for water from other public utilities, and more than twice the average rate paid in Michigan.

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How Secret Wall Street Fees Are Bleeding Our Cities Dry

A new project launched by the Public Banking Institute, called "What Wall Street Costs America," shines light on the way that enormous fees being paid out by local governments to big banks are bankrupting communities across the country.

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Doctors Be Damned: Unfair Health Contract Sparks Exodus of UK Medical Professionals

The government's new contract is "a deliberate process to undermine, fragment and cheapen the entire workforce and enable a transition to a U.S.-style, insurance based system – which is less fair and is not cheaper, far from it."

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Merchandised Consumer Democracy: The Cause of the Economic Cancer in the United States

A socially democratic citizens’ revolution to secure a new and just government and economy is an immediate necessity.

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Fed's Kashkari, in first speech, suggests radical Wall St. overhaul

Neel Kashkari, the Fed's newest policymaker and a former Goldman Sachs exec who helped manage the government's rescue of the financial industry, called on lawmakers this week to take radical action to rein in banks and protect taxpayers.

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Bernie Sanders Is A Candidate For, Not Of, Today’s Movements

Bernie's success thus far is a sign of what a sizable chunk of America is ready for, electorally speaking – democratic socialism – and it’s still hard to escape the feeling that he caught today’s social movements off guard.

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Take A Stand: We Cannot Outsource this Revolution

Now is the time for all of us, individually and collectively, to grab hold of the rope that is so frayed in our country’s collective consciousness.

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