Jerry Falwell Jr and the Pool Boy
I know what you’re thinking. Shame on you! Can’t a religious zealot and his wife “befriend” a Miami pool boy, fly him around in a...
read moreHe Said He’d Be Murdered If Deported. He Was.
More than 60 people have been killed or harmed after being deported. Source: He Said He’d Be Murdered If Deported. He...
read moreThis Holiday Season, I’m Standing With Migrants
People gather on the Mexican side of the border fence to touch hands during the celebration of the Posada Sin Fronteras or Posada...
read moreRobert Reich: Privatization Can’t Solve Our Country’s Ills
Republicans like to believe it increases efficiency and reduces taxes. But more often than not, it simply boosts corporate bottom...
read moreDon’t blame democracy’s decline on ignorance. The problem lies deeper
More recently, authoritarian leaders have rarely abolished liberal democracy overnight. Rather, they slowly but steadily chip away at...
read moreMueller Has Had Trump’s Tax Returns From Day One
The Russia scandal is often treated as separate from the Cohen crimes, but scandals have one common thread at their core. They are...
read moreLiberal Groups Move to Sue After Scott Walker Signs Bills Limiting Power of Incoming Democrat
Two liberal groups announced that they will take legal action in response to Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s decision...
read moreThe Public Ownership Solution
Socialism in the United States is making a comeback. Socialists are winning elections at the local, state, and federal levels; the...
read moreCongress And States Should Enact A Green New Deal
While many candidates in 2018 used the phrase the Green New Deal to highlight that a transition to renewable energy would help create...
read moreNew Yorkers Confront Amazon Execs At City Council Meeting
After being kept in the dark about New York’s $3 billion deal with Amazon, allowing the trillion-dollar corporation to build...
read moreAttacking Monopoly Power Can Be Stunningly Good Politics, Survey Finds
ON MONDAY, THE Open Markets Institute released new evidence of increased corporate concentration in 32 different industries,...
read moreTime magazine honors journalists facing repression — but snubs Julian Assange
The Time list includes no journalists or whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries. And there are no...
read moreChild Who Died in CBP Custody Didn’t Get Medical Attention for 90 Minutes
A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection waited an hour and a half before receiving...
read moreAn Empire of Bases Poisons Water, Threatening Its Own Collapse
The US military’s fire-fighting foam is contaminating groundwater and sickening people in communities around the world. Source: An...
read moreSolving Southern Border Immigration
Rather than building a wall, the money would be better spent on aiding the people in their own countries. While it may be politically...
read moreFacing 17 Ethics Investigations, Ryan Zinke Set to Resign
President Donald Trump announced Zinke’s impending departure in a tweet Saturday morning. Source: Facing 17 Ethics...
read moreIvanka’s Involvement in Trump’s Inauguration May Be Her Undoing
A new report finds the inaugural committee paid the Trump Organization directly, and that the first daughter helped negotiate a...
read moreA World Of Multiple Detonators Of Global Wars
In our times the US is the principal power in search of world domination through force and violence. Washington has targeted :top...
read moreSecond Canadian Arrested in China, Escalating Diplomatic Feud
China confirmed the arrest of Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur, and accused him and another Canadian of unspecified crimes undermining...
read moreConsider Your Wake
Just as a boat creates waves that affect the vessels around it, so too do our words and actions influence the unfolding of our days...
read moreHow the New Silk Roads are merging into Greater Eurasia
The concept of Greater Eurasia has been discussed at the highest levels of Russian academia and policy-making for some time. This...
read more2018 Millennial Home Ownership Report: American Dream Delayed
A research study on housing affordability and millennial homeownership Source: Article: 2018 Millennial Home Ownership Report:...
read moreThe truth about the ‘pee tape’: Experts compare the infamous Steele dossier with Mueller’s findings
A former U.S. attorney and a Harvard Law student teamed up to revisit the Steele dossier by cross-referencing it with special counsel...
read moreLeft-Wing Disaster Relief Efforts Spread Goodwill for Socialism
Where FEMA has failed victims, left-wing groups are offering direct aid and drawing attention to climate change. Source: Left-Wing...
read moreFacebook Exposed Users’ Private Photos
Third-party apps could access some people’s photos during a period in September, the latest of several privacy scandals for...
read moreBonuses Are Up $0.02 Since the GOP Tax Cuts Passed
The bottom line is that there has been very little increase in private sector compensation or W-2 wages since the end of 2017....
read moreMiami Takes a Historic First Step to Stem Climate Gentrification
The City of Miami has adopted a resolution residents hope will help curb climate gentrification, the phenomenon where as sea levels...
read moreBiblical war ‘manifesto’ author and state lawmaker faces campaign finance trouble
Washington state lawmaker Matt Shea found himself in hot water over a biblical war “manifesto” he published in...
read moreGoogle CEO Questioned by Congress on China Censorship
Sundar Pichai told the House Judiciary Committee that Google has “no plans to launch a search service in China.” Source: Google CEO...
read moreGoogle CEO refutes conservative claims of search bias
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sparred with conservative lawmakers who claim the search engine is politically biased while avoiding...
read morePublic transit system in Washington DC struggles with privatization
The fight over who owns and runs public transit in Washington DC has been a long struggle that has seen an ebb and flow of...
read moreRenewable Energy Is Bringing Good Jobs To The Midwest. Is Anyone In Washington Paying Attention?
A report by the Natural Resources Defense Council lays it all out for you. In state after state across the Midwest, renewable energy...
read moreOldest Institution of Southern Baptist Convention Reveals Past Ties to Slavery
The 71-page report is a recitation of decades of bigotry, directed first at African slaves and later at African-American citizens....
read moreHow the Heart Can Heal the Brain
Humans are social animals and “could never have survived without deeply interconnected and interdependent human contact. The truth is...
read moreIs California About to Execute an Innocent Man?
Kevin Cooper reflects on his near-execution, the cowardice of California Democrats and his struggle to stay sane on death row. Part 1...
read moreRevealed: The Pro-Israel Push to Purge US Campus Critics
The US Department of Education recently adopted a new definition of anti-Semitism, one that equates any criticism of Israel with a...
read moreVatican No. 3 Cardinal George Pell Convicted on Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys
The highest-ranking Catholic Church official to face such criminal charges. Source: Vatican No. 3 Cardinal George Pell Convicted on...
read moreCourt Tosses Controversial Pipeline Permits, Rules Forest Service Failed to ‘Speak for the Trees’
Murawski writes: A federal appeals has thrown out another key permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, increasing the likelihood that...
read moreThe Housing Affordability Crisis And What Millennials Can do About It
When millennials head home for the holidays this month, many who are city dwellers will be hosted by parents or grand-parents whose...
read morePets in Spain: Spanish Congress prepares bill to stop treating animals as objects
Spanish Congress on Wednesday began working on the final version of a bill that aims to change animals’ legal status from mere...
read moreEgypt announces discovery of 4,400-year-old tomb
The “exceptionally well-preserved” tomb contains scores of statues of different sizes and colors, the antiquities minister says...
read moreYazidi Woman Who Escaped ISIS Sex Slavery Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Nadia Murad has become a global champion for girls and women. Source: Yazidi Woman Who Escaped ISIS Sex Slavery Awarded Nobel Peace...
read moreAs Grassroots Momentum Surges, Over 300 Local Officials From 40 States Declare Support for Green New Deal
The decision by dozens of mayors, state legislators, and city council members to back a Green New Deal comes as people in the United...
read moreFederal judge says ACA must be thrown out
A federal judge declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional Friday, ruling that the entire law must be struck down because...
read moreMueller should try to indict Trump. It would guarantee his report goes public.
The attorney general would have to tell Congress about denying a request to prosecute the president. Source: Mueller should try to...
read moreACLU threatens lawsuit after Florida GOP tries to delay implementing voting rights ballot initiative
In an ominous development for the fate of Florida’s newly approved ballot measure to restore voting rights to those...
read moreHow We’re Getting Net Neutrality Back
“The public can plainly see that a soon-to-be-toothless FCC is handing the keys to the internet — the internet, one of the most...
read moreThe Senate’s Yemen Vote Proves a More Democratic Foreign Policy Is Possible
Public outrage over US-Saudi relations may put an end to war—and serve as an important lesson for progressives. Source: The Senate’s...
read moreAfter Senate’s Passage of War Powers Resolution, Sanders Tees Up Pressure on House to End US Involvement in Yemen
“My hope is that if we can put enough pressure on Paul Ryan and the Republicans in Congress, something can change,”...
read moreArkansas Times challenges law that requires state contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel in federal court
The Arkansas Times Limited Partnership, the company that owns and publishes the Arkansas Times, is challenging in federal court a...
read moreWhat Does Inequality Cost the Average American? About $150K
Credit Suisse puts America’s total wealth at $98.2 trillion. If we divvied up that wealth as equally as Belgium does, the typical American would have a net worth of $210,900 — more than triple the $61,667 the typical American actually has. In other words, Americans are paying an inequality penalty of almost $150,000.
read moreA Latin American Marshall Plan, At A Discount
López Obrador’s $20 billion development plan gives Washington a chance to help rectify the historic damage it’s done to the living...
read moreHow to Live a More Courageous Life
“The more you interrupt the old fear-based habits and replace fear-based responses with responses to boost courage, the more...
read moreCongress reaches deal ending taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements
Members of Congress would be held personally liable for sexual harassment and retaliation settlements, requiring them to reimburse...
read more‘A Very Dark Day for Democracy’: Scott Walker Signs Wisconsin GOP’s ‘Legislative Coup’ Into Law
“This is the kind of thing autocrats do,” declared journalist Ari Berman Source: ‘A Very Dark Day for...
read moreMaria Butina’s Guilty Plea Reveals How She Played the NRA
The Russian national pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States — and she infiltrated two of its right-wing...
read more‘Indefensible’: 7-Year-Old Child’s ‘Horrific’ Death in DHS Custody Prompts Outrage
The ACLU blamed a “lack of accountability and a culture of cruelty” at the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agency (CPB)...
read moreProminent Doctors Aren’t Disclosing Their Industry Ties in Medical Journal Studies. And Journals Are Doing Little to Enforce Their Rules
The dean of Yale’s medical school, the incoming president of a prominent cancer group and the head of a Texas cancer center are among...
read moreTaking French Lessons: The Power of the ‘Yellow Vests’
Through weeks of mass direct action, the French have shown their government who is boss, and elected officials have been forced to...
read more‘Stand With People, Not Polluters’: Sit-In on Last Day of COP24 Highlights #PeoplesDemands for Ambitious Climate Action
More than 150 representatives from movements across the globe came together in protest at the “corporate-captured U.N. climate...
read moreKavanaugh Was Last Straw For Top California Supreme Court Justice Who Quit GOP
The chief justice of California’s Supreme Court has quit the Republican Party following misgivings about the controversial hearings...
read moreInside Sources Say the State Dept. Refuses to Trace Whether Israel Is Using US Military Aid Illegally
Kane writes: Human rights advocates say they have brought the State Department evidence of specific crimes committed by soldiers who...
read moreHUD Took Over a Town’s Housing Authority 22 Years Ago. Now the Authority’s Broke and Residents Are Being Pushed Out.
As recently as last year, HUD had told officials in Wellston, Missouri, that they would get their local housing authority back. Then...
read moreCOP24 Organizers Accused of Censoring Climate Campaigners While Letting Pro-Fossil Fuel Message Flourish
New reporting by Agence France-Presse shows U.N. organizers asked for “dirty energy” reference to be removed from video...
read moreWhy Hondurans See Migration as an Act of Civil Disobedience
In walking out of their country en masse, Hondurans are making a loud, bold statement about the extreme injustices they face at home....
read moreThe War On Huawei
The Trump administration’s conflict with China has everything to do with containing China by limiting its access to foreign markets,...
read moreNatalie Portman Slams Israel’s Nation-State Law As ‘Racist,’ ‘Wrong’
Jerusalem-born actress Natalie Portman has only harsh words for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial...
read moreThe Ocasio-Cortez Left Goes to War With Jeff Bezos
In New York, Amazon is facing angry politicians, activists, and unionizing warehouse workers. Was HQ2 worth the backlash? Source: The...
read moreMore on the 5 Dems. Who Voted for Continued War, Famine and Disease in Yemen
the Farm Bill Rule (with its sneaked in provision blocking debate and a vote on the Yemen Resolution) passed by a vote of 206 to 203,...
read more‘They don’t care’: Facebook factchecking in disarray as journalists push to cut ties
Journalists hired to help fix Facebook’s fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform Source: ‘They don’t...
read morePolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: Online smear machine tries to take down Parkland students
The lies went like this: David Hogg, an outspoken student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was really a “crisis...
read moreJared Kushner Replaced Michael Cohen as Trump’s National Enquirer Connection
The president’s son-in-law grew tight with David Pecker during the early months of the administration. Source: FOCUS: Jared Kushner...
read moreAmerican Jewish progressives defend Airbnb’s decision to remove Israeli West Bank properties
Signatories argue that the decision by the home-rental company was not antisemitic Source: American Jewish progressives defend...
read moreJared Kushner was a key player in Trump’s National Enquirer blackmail scheme against MSNBC’s Scarborough and Brzezinski: report
Jared Kushner reportedly took part in an attempted blackmail scheme against his former friends Joe Scarborough and Mika...
read moreSlow Police Response and Chaos Contributed to Parkland Massacre, Report Finds
A state commission investigating the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High found that several sheriff’s deputies who raced to the school...
read moreMigrant Groups March To U.S. Consulate In Tijuana Demanding Reparations
Two groups of Central American migrants made separate marches on the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana Tuesday, demanding that they be...
read moreWhat Happened to 2018 As The Year of the Teacher?
I don’t care what corporate journalists are being forced to report by their billionaire owners.Teachers are at the heart of...
read moreThe Impossibility of Bipartisan Healthcare Compromise
Democrats should write a health-care reform bill so aggressive that it drastically weakens the profitability of Big Medical, and...
read moreWhere There’s Smoke, There’s Boehner
The former speaker’s cannabis pitch symbolizes how low too many of our craven, so-called public servants are willing to stoop...
read moreNo Labels and the ‘Problem Solvers’ are Wolves of Wall Street in Sheep’s Clothing
Political organizations hide their pro-finance politics under the cloak of bipartisanship while they rake in funding from corporate...
read moreBorrowing From Big Tobacco’s Playbook, Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder for Decades
One attorney said 1970s memos that have surfaced due to recent lawsuits are “on par with key docs uncovered in the tobacco...
read moreResearch finds that orangutans can communicate about the past just like humans
The evolution of language converted a defenceless naked ape into a world-dominating force. A large and potent component of language...
read moreThe Incredible Impact of Kindness on Humanity
Instead of becoming hopeless and depressed about the sheer enormity of the plight of so many, we must instead focus on what we can...
read moreEurope is on the brink of a working class revolution against globalist governments
France’s fuel protests have partly turned into anti-Macron protests as well. Under his leadership taxes are increased, but he forgets...
read moreWhich Is Worse, Trump or Brexit?
There are some important distinctions. The United States will have the chance to get rid of Trump in two more years; Brexit is for...
read moreWould Indicting Trump Be Constitutional?
Yes, it would be. But that question is a distraction from the principal objective of the Russia investigation. Source: Opinion |...
read moreWe Must Challenge Capitalist “Solutions” to Climate Change
COP24 wants us to drink the same old Kool-Aid in new bottles, but we can and must do better. Source: We Must Challenge Capitalist...
read moreLatin American Leftists Must Think Why The Poorest No Longer Support Us So Much
Liberation theology is still alive in Brazil, but it has lost a lot of ground. We must learn from past mistakes and create socialist...
read moreRich People Are Getting Away With Not Paying Their Taxes
An eight-year campaign to slash the IRS’s budget has left the agency understaffed, hamstrung, and operating with archaic equipment....
read moreIt’s time to start figuring out how to impeach Trump judges once we’re rid of him
Senate Republicans, with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence, put a judge that the American Bar Association rated as “not qualified” on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. The Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Jonathon Kobes, who the ABA says “has neither the requisite experience nor evidence of his ability to fulfill the scholarly writing required of a United States Circuit Court Judge.”
read moreHere’s how the new Democratic members of the House sort out ideologically
the Democratic members tend to self-sort into three different ideological caucuses: the Congressional Progressive Caucus (who...
read moreIncoming New York Attorney General Plans Wide-Ranging Investigations of Trump and Family
New York Attorney Gen.-elect Letitia James says she plans to launch sweeping investigations into President Donald Trump, his family...
read moreYanis Varoufakis’s Internationalist Odyssey
The former Greek finance minister is on a quest to unite the global left. Source: Yanis Varoufakis’s Internationalist Odyssey | The...
read moreWe Can Help Thousands of Persons Fleeing Violence in Central America. We Helped Over 131,000 Vietnamese in 1975
The caravans of thousands of people fleeing violence in Central America are small numbers compared to those the United States took in...
read moreWe Have To Make Sure The “Green New Deal” Doesn’t Become Green Capitalism
The GND is still in its nascent phase, and concrete details haven’t yet been hashed out, but the proposal has received backing from...
read moreFor The First Time Social Media Outpaces Print Newspapers As News Source
Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news...
read more9 Powerful People Who Fought for the Planet in 2018
These individuals called for action and inclusivity in the fight against climate change. Source: 9 Powerful People Who Fought for the...
read moreWill the Supreme Court Come to Trump and Manafort’s Rescue?
A new case could change the rules of double jeopardy, potentially to the benefit of the president and his former campaign manager....
read moreBernie’s Plan for Racial Justice
The micro-scandals alleging that Bernie Sanders doesn’t take racism seriously won’t end any time soon. We should call them what...
read moreThink We Can’t Afford the Green New Deal? We Can’t Afford Not To
Cries of ‘We can’t afford a Green New Deal!’ are not only ridiculous; they’re hypocritical. If we can afford...
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