As musician Bob Dylan sang in 1964, "The times they are a-changing."
In January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported union membership in the United States in 2021 at 10.3 percent while the number of unionized...
It's no surprise republicans want to eliminate anything resembling a social program that helps the poor, elderly, and middle class.
Since its passage in 1965, Medicare has been on the list of items at which the...
Randomly stop any individual at work, on the street, or anywhere else, and ask his or her opinion of the government.
You're bound to receive responses like:
"Government is too big."
"The government screws up everything."
"There's too much...
Protectionist trade policies aren't just good for American jobs.
They're good for national security.
As tensions heat up between the United States and China over Taiwanese independence, it's time re-evaluate who supplies us with the goods on...
One of the ways Donald Trump secured the republican nomination for president, and ultimately the White House in 2016, was his opposition to other GOP contenders on Medicare, Social Security, healthcare, and the Iraq war.
While the other republicans–Jeb Bush,...
Last year, before losing the White House to Joe Biden, former president Donald Trump warned:
"If he gets in, you will have a depression the likes of which you have never seen. Your 401(k)s will go...
While the "human infrastructure" bill known as the “Build Back Better Act” will unfortunately have to wait a little longer, Saturday marked an historic day in America when House Democrats finally passed the "Infrastructure Investment...
For two weeks, the New York City Taxi Workers’ Alliance (NYTWA) members have been engaged in a hunger strike outside City Hall demanding Mayor Bill de Blasio grant debt relief for the taxi medallion price...
This week we witnessed another example of how much the republican party hates democracy.
On Wednesday, Senate republicans blocked debate on S.2747, “The Freedom to Vote Act," the Senate's version of the “For the People Act”...
Democrats have a day to prove they are capable of delivering on President Joe Biden's campaign promise of "building back better."
If they fail, they risk a republican rout in next year's mid-term elections and possibly...
After decades of hearing republicans harangue about debt, deficits, and "fiscal responsibility," one would assume that when they are in the congressional majority and/or the White House, our economy would be stronger and more "fiscally...
This has been a whirlwind August for renters, particularly those behind on their rent.
At the beginning of the month, the federal eviction moratorium in place since September lapsed, leaving 15 million Americans facing possible homelessness.
Then,...
Do you have that neighbor who bends your ear about the latest outrage he heard on Fox so-called "news"?
Maybe it's a relative who never misses Tucker Carlson's show, or believes One America News (OAN) is "balanced, unbiased"...
It's bad.
Really bad.
Some phrases climate experts are using now are “record-shattering,” “out of time,” “unprecedented,” and even “irreversible.”
Several previously optimistic about our ability to mitigate the worst of the climate emergency are now becoming more...
Democrats hold the majority in both houses of Congress and they hold White House.
So how did such an important democratic issue like the eviction moratorium in place since September slip through the Democrats' fingers?
Now 15...
As Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders has said many times, "Despair is not an option."
That's true.
The moment we succumb to despair, particularly pertaining to politics, is the moment the opposition wins.
With so many deep-pocketed special interests...
The clock is ticking.
There are four weeks left in the congressional calendar, which means when federal lawmakers return to Washington in September, it will be time to be gearing up for November elections.
While it's not...
Democrats hold the majority in the House of Representatives.
They hold a narrow majority in the Senate.
They have the White House.
So why are they bowing to republicans?
At a carpenters’ training center outside Pittsburgh, Pa. last month,...
Two weeks ago, New York became the 14th state to legalize recreational marijuana.
A week later, Virginia became the 15th and the first Southern state.
Most of the country now has either fully legalized, decriminalized, or allows...
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...
