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.
Will Biden’s America Stop Creating Terrorists?
The new Biden administration needs to take a truly fresh look at the whole range of destructive policies the United States has pursued around the world for decades, and the…
Rouhani Tells Biden How to Get the Iran Deal Back on Track
The Iranian president is signaling to the U.S. and to Europe that if they want Iran to go back to observing the stringent stipulations of the JCPOA, they have to…
Unemployment Skyrocketing? An Evolved Society Would Celebrate.
Why do we still pretend crap jobs give our lives meaning?
Vaccine Thinking Applied to All of American Life
The remarkably speedy hunt for a Covid-19 vaccine shows what might be possible when it comes to the inequality that may be the most striking aspect of American life in…
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
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.
Jon Wiener: What Aaron Sorkin Got Wrong in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
The historian, who wrote 'Conspiracy in the Streets' on the subject of the Netflix film, sets the record straight on this week’s 'Scheer Intelligence.'
J4J LA: Justice for Janitors Timeline
The story of more than two decades of effective labor organizing in Los Angeles.
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.
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.
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.