Whatever the implications for winning elections, progressives should support policies that reverse upward redistribution because it is the right thing to do

The Real Trump Scandal is What He’s done to the Environment

All of this demonstrates how fundamental a shift has taken place as a result of the Democrats’ election-related fixation on The Grave Russian Threat

According to a leaked copy of the EPA’s 2018 budget proposal, the agency’s overall budget would be slashed by 25 percent

What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948 by saying look, we’re going to starve you to death or kill you or destroy you unless you vote the way we want. I mean that’s what we do

Trump’s view of foreign policy at this stage appears to be a primitive mixture of state-centrism, militarism, nationalism, overall what had qualified until World War I as realpolitik

The Story That Never Was

Trump is not a new phenomenon.  He is the latest, and most aggressive to date, repacking of corporate-radical right attempts to reassert…

The single-payer system looks like the nation’s last hope for a democratic, universal health care solution

Using Russia – yet again – to whitewash our own sins and systemic failures is bad enough. Let’s just hope it doesn’t lead the two countries back into a protracted and devastating Cold War or, worse still, direct military confrontation

By and large, these were men who had voted for Trump, but few of them seemed to really support him in the full sense of the word

Interview about a group combining activism and social work with refugees

This is the beginning of the militarized removal of our communities, of our families, and of our loved ones

If we fail to build mass protest movements, ones that cripple the ability to govern, we will be enslaved

The fact that business executives and military generals no longer require middle-men to negotiate their interests should worry anyone interested in living in a quasi-democratic society

Before, during, and after President Barack Obama’s announcements of closing Guantanamo, it constituted an illegal prison whose guards used and still use torture, human experimentation, murder, secrecy, and lies.

From strikes to sanctuary campaigns, sustained resistance continues to sweep the country

How the U.S. Invaded, Occupied, and Remade Itself

The U.S. intelligence community’s extraordinary campaign of leaks claiming improper ties between President Trump’s team and Russia seeks to ensure a lucrative New Cold War by blocking détente

Interview on a new series that examines indigenous resistance past and present, from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline to “Red Power,” which looks at past indigenous resistance and the evolution of the Red Power Movement