Friday, April 4, 2025

Bill Moyers and Neil Barofsky on big bailouts

"The big financial institutions who were– obviously the biggest winners of the last bailout– they’re gonna win again. They always win. That’s kinda the way our system is organized."

Seven Women Who Broke Glass Ceilings in U.S. Politics Before Hillary Clinton

It is a great moment for women’s rights in the US. But Hillary Clinton is not the first to break the glass ceiling for women in U.S. politics.

Why it’s time for Congress to launch a manufacturing renaissance

It’s important to remember that rebuilding the nation’s industrial base will be a losing battle without stopping the serial trade cheaters who undercut U.S. producers and kill thousands of American jobs each year.

As Coasts Flood, Why Isn’t the Corporate Press Asking Candidates About Climate Change?

It is also possible that corporate capitalism, which both runs the candidates and runs the so-called “news” companies, is about as good at dealing with a rapidly changing environment as the dodo was.

Announcing Bernie or Bust 2.0: Electoral warriors for the Green New Deal

We need a populist GND – championed by a principled populist like Sanders – to sweep today’s criminally insane Republicans (whom Biden likes so much) into the dustbin of history.

Alabama’s lessons for the Democratic Party

Social movements build power and make change, and the Democrats would be wise to heed the lessons of Alabama.

Ten uplifting teaching moments from President Fiasco

How to achieve peace in our time, universal happiness, and healthy goodwill towards our neighbor.

There’s a big hole in the center of the Democratic Party

Voters are embracing new ideas and new goals, and smart politicians are helping advance the process.

The president is fooling himself. Is he fooling us, too?

If the occasional appearance of sanity is all we ask of Trump, then his reign of insanity will be our fault.

Noam Chomsky explains why ‘the Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in world...

Has there ever been an organization in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on Earth?