Will Biden Channel Franklin Roosevelt?
The incoming president would do well to study and emulate FDR's bold leadership on the same issues of spiraling inequity the country faces again.
Lee Camp: Ads All Tell Us To Kill Our Future. Worth Discussing?
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Chris Hedges: The Great Delusion
The real lesson we should learn from the rise of a demagogue such as Trump and a pandemic that our for-profit health care industry proved unable to contain is that…
The U.K.’s New COVID-19 Strain and Boris Johnson’s Bloody Blunders
The British prime minister’s pre-Christmas announcement that a new, highly contagious strain of the coronavirus is ripping through England is as shocking as it is maddening.
White Supremacy Is Only Plausible Explanation for 2020 Election Results
Voter polling on racism and Black Lives Matter show it was the biggest factor in Republican victories across the country.
FDR Knew Exactly How to Solve Today’s Unemployment Crisis
A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest…
Blueprint: How to Beat the Pro-Charter Billionaires
Despite being outspent 3-1, education activists flipped a school board to take their district back from outside privatizers.
Unemployment Skyrocketing? An Evolved Society Would Celebrate.
Why do we still pretend crap jobs give our lives meaning?
J4J: Inside an Epic Victory for American Labor
After decades of declining clout and shrinking membership, janitorial unions in Los Angeles led a labor movement revival at the end of the last century.
J4J LA: Justice for Janitors Timeline
The story of more than two decades of effective labor organizing in Los Angeles.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: A Certain Kind of Diversity
That a black man might helm the horrendous war machine that so effectively chews up black and brown bodies is an obscenity that’s absolutely American.
Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class
No one can, or should, take them seriously. They stand for nothing. They fight for nothing.
Why the Fed Needs Public Banks
The Fed’s policy tools – interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” – have all failed to revive local economies suffering from government-mandated shutdowns. . The Fed must…
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
Elections Proved Americans Are Done with the Drug War
Despite a seeming media blackout on the topic, voters continue to use ballot measures to push decriminalization to get around the control special interests exert over state legislators.