We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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Maine’s Radical Universal Home Health Care Proposition
The Maine People’s Alliance, a grassroots organization, collected 67,000 signatures to get a measure on the November ballot that would provide home health care to all Maine residents.
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Legalizing Recreational Marijuana, Canada Begins a National Experiment
Canada on Wednesday became the first major world economy to legalize recreational marijuana, beginning a national experiment that will alter the country’s social, cultural and economic fabric, and present the nation with its biggest public policy challenge in decades.
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Transgender Self-ID Law Raises Passions, and Conflict, in the U.K.
The British government this week is weighing controversial changes to the existing Gender Recognition Act, asking the public whether they believe trans people should be allowed to “self-ID.”
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90,000 Voters Purged in Vegas and Reno Could Tip the Senate
On Monday, the Palast Investigative Fund announced it was releasing the names of 90,000 Nevada residents purged from the voter rolls based on flawed evidence that indicates they have moved.
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No More Crime and Punishment: The National Prison Strike of 2018, Part I
Depending how you look at it, our country's prison system is either a raging success – helping line the pockets of prison investors and those gaining from cheap prison labor – or a total failure.
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Banking on the Future of Los Angeles: Why We Need Charter Amendment B
Angelenos are no longer interested in business-as-usual politics. They want to see progressive reforms in the people’s best interest — and creating a public bank is the clearest example of that.
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What Civil Rights History Can Teach Kavanaugh’s Critics
A week after the justice’s controversial swearing-in, the African-American activists I study offer a lesson to those who are in despair: Failure is part of the process.
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Dear Aunt Lydia: Women Raping Women in the Era of #MeToo
Today’s conservative Republican Trumpian women are actually aroused and sadistically satisfied by white male patriarchy and entitlement.
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Victims of Hurricane Michael Voted for Climate Deniers
Elections have consequences. Denying science has consequences. And we are reaping what we sow.
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Changing the Constitution Can't Be the Strategy—Yet
Yes, progressives should try to change the “rules of the game.” But such change is properly seen as a way to consolidate political power that has already been won.
