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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An Economy that Works for All: Learning from the UK's Labour Manifesto
What Bernie Sanders is not talking about is a more thorough transformation of the economy that would democratize wealth and how it is created – like the UK Labour Party is proposing.
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'Take Away Our Poverty, Not Our Children!': Poor People's Campaign Caps Off 40 Days of Action
Thousands rallied in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, calling for a "moral revival" and demanding that America "Fight Poverty Not the Poor."
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Britain’s Burgeoning Wealth Inequality Shows A Nation More Divided Than Ever
London is now home to more than 4,500 multimillionaires – people defined as having net assets of at least $30 million – while poverty across the rest of Britain is reaching new heights.
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Fate of 2,300 Separated Children Still Unclear Despite Trump's Executive Order
NGOs say bringing parents and children back together is an enormous puzzle with no clear system from the administration.
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Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Put 80,000 Lives at Risk, Harvard Analysis Finds
The authors used EPA’s own risk assessments to estimate the number of illnesses and early deaths prevented by clean air and water rules Trump is now trying to erase.
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"These Are Prisons for Babies": Forcibly Separated From Parents, Youngest Kids Sent to So-Called "Tender Age" Detention
Those who have visited the facilites describe "play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis."
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GOP Hypocrisy on Steroids: The Assault on Obamacare’s Individual Mandate
Twenty states, backed by Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, are trying in the courts to dismantle the law by attacking what they see as its Achilles heel: the individual mandate.
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Here’s How Much Money America’s Biggest Corporations Have Stolen From Their Own Workers
An eye-opening new report has documented billions of dollars of corporate theft from workers. The government is turning a blind eye.
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Europe Calls Into Question the Legality of Trump's Trade War
“These tariffs aren’t even legal under U.S. law, let alone World Trade Organization laws. It seems rather odd to be citing national security and targeting countries including your closest allies.”
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ICE’s Military-Style Raid Leaves Immigrant Communities Terrorized
The size and brutality of this particular raid in Ohio, along with the use of military tactics, have shocked even the most seasoned immigrants’ rights activists.