Monday, December 23, 2024

Fighting corruption must be our focus in 2020

The future of the nation and the planet is at stake.

The Donald also rises?

For all practical purposes, right-wing populists will have taken over the world.

The story behind the world’s first private refugee sponsorship program

“There are seven countries right now designing programs based on what they’ve learned about ours.”

A Democratic spring: 12 left challengers taking on the party establishment in 2018

The scattering of challenges to the Democratic establishment after Bernie Sanders’ run has become a tidal wave.

Liberals are criticizing the Korea Summit from the Right. Here’s why they have it...

With an end to the 68-year Korean War finally in sight, some U.S. “progressives” are pushing Trump to be more hardline – despite the fact that Koreans overwhelmingly want peace.

There’s no ‘labor shortage.’ there’s a wage shortage.

Congress ought to be listening to actual workers explain why they’re not rushing back to the jobs being offered by restaurant chains and such.

On right-wing violence in Texas, media’s silence sends message

Is this sending a message to would-be future attackers that there will be no consequences for their actions?

Patriotic Millionaires urge global leaders to combat tax avoidance through wealth tax on world’s...

"We need to foster a recovery beyond regressing to the same-old, same-old. We need to tax the rich.”

Emergency protests planned to stop Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP’s ‘shocking and naked power...

"Warning to our friends across the country: what happens in Wisconsin doesn't stay in Wisconsin. The GOP (and Kochs) use the state as a petri dish for terrible hard-right ideas. If this works, it'll spread elsewhere."
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Millions facing eviction and joblessness get no immediate help from Trump’s new executive orders

Under Trump’s order, unemployed workers would continue receiving an additional $400 a week, but only once states put up a quarter of the money and set up a new system to distribute the payments.