Biden Could Easily Cancel Student Debt, But Will He?
The federal government owns 92 percent of all student debt owed in this country. Canceling it could provide a huge stimulus.
America Is Contributing to Iran’s Shocking Covid-19 Death Toll
Iran is suffering the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the Middle East. Part of the blame for this tragedy is on none other than Donald Trump
How to Stop Big Energy in Its Tracks (Quite Literally)
A promising strategy for defeating new fossil-fuel projects has been quietly bearing fruit, even in the Trump era.
Michèle Flournoy’s Fall Proves What Progressive Pushback Can Do
Activism succeeded in changing “Defense Secretary Flournoy” from a fait accompli to a lost fantasy of the military-industrial complex.
Thanking Essential Workers Is Not Enough
Walmart’s owners are seeing their wealth surge while my former coworkers there go without hazard pay. That has to change.
Donald Trump and the Fall of the American Empire
In more ways than many of us realized, Trump was the messenger from hell when it came to a falling empire on a failing planet.
We Desperately Need an Affordable Justice Act
In the United States of America, justice is only available to the few who can afford it —but it doesn't have to be this way.
NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump
Whether or not it intended to, NPR trivialized historic voter disenfranchisement in the South.
Will Trump Really Be the One to End Our Forever Wars?
Partial withdrawals are reportedly soon to be underway in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia as Donald Trump tries to make good on a promise at the eleventh hour of his presidency.
What Simon & Schuster’s Acquisition Would Mean for American Publishing
If past experience is a useful guide to the future, we need not overly fear such imperial mergers and acquisitions.
The Progressive Victories No One’s Talking About
Progressive ballot initiatives passed handily across the country, even in so-called red states.
What President Biden Simply Won’t Touch
What if they called an election and nothing changed in the War State?
A New Cold War Could Be Just Around the Corner
As the Biden presidency approaches, an era of great-power competition between the U.S. and China is already taken for granted inside the Washington Beltway.
The Imperative to Achieve Medicare for All
We simply cannot allow the Biden administration to get away with a repeat of the failed Affordable Care Act.
We’ll Never Have Gender Equality Without This Crucial Reform
The collapse of child care and traditional schooling is having a devastating effect on women in particular.