The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
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Field Notes 2020: Andrew Yang’s War for Normal People
The presidential candidate has three big ideas: universal basic income, Medicare for all, and “human-centered capitalism.” The first one alone would enlarge the economy 12.6% in the first 8 years.
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Reaching Critical Mass On Taxing The Rich
Polls regularly show broad public support for having our wealthiest pay quite a bit more at tax time. But we haven’t had critical mass on taxing the rich within our political class – until now.
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The Kings of Capitalism are Finally Worried About the Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor
Now that the political debate has shifted, Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio is the latest in a bank of billionaires to talk about the gap between rich and poor
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2020 Candidates Side With Labor As Strikes Deepen, Extending to Private Sector
Recent strikes in Erie County, Penn., and New England are evidence that workers in the private sector are beginning to exercise their strike muscles again – and reawakening the labor roots in the Democratic Party.
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Chartering Disaster: Trump Admin's Education Priorities 'Asleep at the Wheel'
The federal budget proposal for 2020 includes increased funding to charter schools – even as a recent report shows $1 billion in federal funding went to charters that are now closed, or never even opened in the first place.
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Greta Thunberg at London Climate Protest: "We Will Never Stop Fighting"
More than 1,000 people have been arrested since anti-climate change protests started in the British capital one week ago by the global body Extinction Rebellion.
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Movement to Build National Support for Green New Deal Starts in Boston, ‘City of Revolutions’
The Sunrise Movement launched a national tour of U.S. cities on April 18 with a sold-out rally at the Strand Theater in Boston.
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A Growing Citizens' Coalition Brings Environmental Justice Fight To Urban Michigan
Citing rising health concerns and the historic pollution of their community, people are confronting US Ecology's bid to vastly expand fracking wastewater storage facilities in their area.
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A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder
This isn’t your parents’ inequality influenza, but a more virulent strain of extreme wealth disparities. Here's a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.
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What Would a Universal Basic Income Mean for America? Stockton Thinks it Has the Answer
As part of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, for the next year and a half 130 residents of this struggling California city will get $500 every month, with no strings attached.
