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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Students Denounce NRA's "Dangerous Agenda" In Protests Outside Convention
"Our generation is the post-Columbine generation," said organizer Waed Alhayek. "After the Parkland students stood up, even older people are saying, 'Why have we accepted thoughts and prayers?' on Twitter."
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Our Data, Our Property: We Need New Laws To Prevent Facebook Abuse
If tech companies like Facebook won’t respect on any ethical or moral level that our data is our property, then laws must be written to codify those rights.
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Arizona Teacher Raises Passed After Strike Shuts Schools
A budget that provides big raises for many of the state's striking teachers potentially ends the five-day walkout that kept more than a million public school students out of the classroom.
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The Significance of Armenia’s ‘April Revolution’
The massive street protests forced the country’s longtime leader to resign. But what’s next for Armenia?
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The Coming Iran Crisis and the Urgency for a Progressive Foreign Policy Alternative
A progressive foreign policy would reject the use of the American military as a global police force, support social democracy internationally instead of unfettered global capitalism, and push strongly for demilitarization.
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Taxing the Poor
As the gap between rich and poor widens, the political system becomes vulnerable to the sort of class conflict that now divides us – undermining the very possibility of a constitutional democracy.
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Meeting the Definition of Terrorism: Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Banks
The terror inflicted on Americans is real, and is documented by the facts to follow.
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Louisiana Looks To Gambling to Fill Its Budget Holes–But At A High Social Cost
State lawmakers see legalized gambling as a cure to their chronic revenue shortfalls – but like other states that failed before it, Louisiana may experience new and harmful consequences as a result.
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Do Taxpayers Know They Are Handing Out Billions to Corporations?
Every year, states and local governments give economic-development incentives to companies to the tune of between $45 billion and $80 billion. Why such a wide range? Because many of these subsidies are not public.
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Whether America Can Afford A Job Guarantee Program Is Not Up For Debate
Sen. Bernie Sanders's endorsement of a guaranteed job for anyone who wants one has reinvigorated a debate in which people instinctively ask: How on earth can we pay for that?
