For all the impressive ways Joe Biden has begun his first two and a half months in office, we must remember the ship of state is not a speedboat.
It's more like an ocean liner.
Reversing decades...
It's no surprise American working women make less money than men.
That is a cruel institutional bias women have had to endure since the dawn of our republic.
While not unique to the United States, nor the...
In the 1930s, our 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, embarked on a bold initiative.
Lifting the nation from the Great Depression's doldrums required more than peace-meal policies that basically kept the system humming along as it...
Ballot counting began Monday for 5,800 Amazon fulfillment center workers in Bessemer, Alabama attempting to unionize with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU).
If successful, it will be the first Amazon warehouse to unionize,...
While Democrats seize their razor-thin majority in both houses of Congress with legislation designed to improve average Americans' lives, states with Republican majorities are going full authoritarian on voting rights and people's First Amendment right...
While we seem to finally be gaining ground on the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one public health crisis to which we appear powerless.
That is the epidemic of gun violence.
Once again, the United States has suffered...
After forty long years, Reaganomics might finally be on its last leg.
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to raise taxes on Americans making more than $400,000 a year.
Those familiar with Biden's moderate past understandably...
When the world shut down last year for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, something happened to the air.
It got cleaner.
According to Global Carbon Project researchers, carbon emissions dropped by 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 due to reduced...
Provide federal assistance to low-income communities
Protect Social Security
Grant asylum to refugees
Expand the federal minimum wage
Improve and expand unemployment benefits
Strengthen labor laws to make it easier for workers to join...
"This legislation represents the boldest action taken on behalf of the American people since the Great Depression."
"This is seismic legislation."
This how House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Pete Aguilar and House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal...
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Some will read the above tweet from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and only see the "T-word."
We rarely meet anyone anxious to pay taxes, even those who understand taxes are the price we pay for living in...
Former Democratic presidential candidate--now New York City mayoral candidate--Andrew Yang had a unique signature issue among last year's other presidential contenders.
He wanted to give every American $1,000 from what he called the "Freedom Dividend."
Last year Yang partnered...
One day after the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) was expected to hear two cases threatening to unleash “the most aggressive attacks on the right to vote to reach the Supreme Court in the post-Jim Crow...
Here's an intellectual exercise Donald Trump's most ardent supporters probably haven't thought of.
If, as QAnon adherents believe, there hasn't been a legitimate President of the United States since Ulysses S. Grant, wouldn't that make Trump's...
Republican state legislatures all over the country are aggressively trying to make voting harder.
As the Brennan Center for Justice reports, currently 28 states have 106 pending bills to restrict access to ballot boxes.
Contrast this to...
Two years ago, Donald Trump proclaimed during his State of the Union Address, "The United States will never be a Socialist country."
During Trump's four years, the Republican party promulgated decades-old red scare fallacies about the...
There are 224 state-level ballot-qualified political parties in the United States.
Most are obscure.
We like to believe we can vote for whomever we want in the United States, yet because we do not practice a parliamentary system nor a national-level system of proportional representation,...
Texas is synonymous with the oft-cited American ethos of "rugged individualism".
But perhaps that obstinance has finally come at a dangerous and expensive cost.
As President Joe Biden on Saturday approved a major disaster declaration for Texas after...
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight–two qualities the Trump administration did not believe were necessary.
Days before being sworn in, Biden outlined...
In 2008, as the financial sector was melting down, the federal government spent between between $20 and $36 trillion on corporate bailouts.
After the 2008 financial crash, Congress granted "too-big-to-fail" Wall Street banks $700 billion, and the...
