Two-Faced Trump: Peace in Korea, World War in the Middle East
Trump believes he can simultaneously capture a Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea while leaping toward war with Iran.
This is the Wrong Time to Cut Back on Public Housing
More than half a million Americans are homeless — the size of a large city.
My Advice for High School Graduates: Learn a Trade
While millions of students rack up college debt and gain no skills, millions of high-paying trade jobs sit empty.
Demonstrators Disrupt Wells Fargo Shareholder Meeting
An annual protest tradition continues as activists demand accountability from the scandal-ridden bank.
Arizona Teachers Show Link Between Tax Cuts and Underfunded Schools
The state’s teachers go on strike, calling for a ban on tax cuts until education funding reaches national average.
The Black Hole of Concentrated Wealth is Sucking Up Talent
In everything from transportation to banking, people of modest means end up worse off when societies let wealth concentrate at our economic summit.
Inside “The Souls of Poor Folk” Moral Audit with Co-Author
“The Poor People’s Campaign was a project first introduced by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, who was assassinated months after he announced it. It has been restarted by the Reverends William Barber and Liz Theoharis. The revived campaign kicks off...
A New Progressive Standard on Campaign Cash: It Can’t Come from Corporations
PACs aren’t sitting well with left-leaning voters, leading candidates to move away from a reliance on corporate funding.
Korea and the Geopolitics of the Impossible
Careful Korean diplomacy, coupled Trump’s desire to do what Obama couldn’t, could mean a rapprochement on the Korean peninsula no one thought possible.
Duterte’s New Warning to Mining Companies
OceanaGold’s mining agreement in the Philippines expires in 2019. Now’s a great time to act on the company’s reforestation scam.
Health Over Wealth for the World’s Richest — But What About the Rest of Us?
Big pharma brought in millions of dollars in profits through the overprescription of opioids. Is accountability for the 63,000 fatal overdoses they caused around the corner?
Far Right Groups Are Stumbling, But Their Rhetoric Is More Mainstream Than Ever
In a sense, the Republican Party has become a much more powerful instrument of white rage than the alt-right.
Plan to Cut Pentagon Waste Eliminates an Office Designed to Do Just That
Rather than returning the savings to the taxpayers, the plan means to plow those savings back into the Pentagon budget.
Time to Tax the ‘Swanktuaries’
Luxury buildings drive up housing costs, suck up energy, and help rich people warehouse wealth. They should pay a lot more than property taxes.
Will Greed Be the EPA Leader’s Downfall?
Activists are hoping to use Scott Pruitt’s self-enrichment at taxpayer expense to get rid of a dangerous climate change denier.