Crony Capitalism Can’t Save Coal Country
What coal country needs is a just transition from a corporate-controlled extractive economy to a community-driven Green New Deal.
What coal country needs is a just transition from a corporate-controlled extractive economy to a community-driven Green New Deal.
The Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act, landmark new legislation before Congress, links corporate taxes to the CEO-worker pay divide.
The House-Senate companion bill addresses corporate America’s extreme disparities, giving firms an incentive to lift up the bottom and bring down the top of their pay scales.
The wealthiest Americans dominate our airwaves. Let’s hear from someone else for a change.
With personal fortunes worth dozens of billions, modern American deep pockets can afford one of just about everything.
40 percent of Americans can’t afford a $400 emergency — and more emergencies are coming.
The fires ravaging California offer yet another reason to fear our grand economic divides.
In countries like Peru, extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers — including me.
While Trump’s potential impeachment dominates news feeds, let’s not lose sight of the deep policy changes needed to make this country work for all of us.
In 29 states, trans people can legally be denied jobs and housing because of who we are. Congress should act.
Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden.
Oil and gas companies aren’t only polluting our air, water, and soil. They’ve injected themselves into our education system as well.
The United States, the top historic contributor to carbon emissions, has been treating climate refugees from its own pollution as threats. We can do better.
John Bolton’s tenure as National Security Advisor has officially ended, but whether U.S.-Iran talks will resume are still uncertain.
When it comes to nuclear weapons and energy programs, governments have been willing to send their people into harm’s way with impunity.