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...
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,...
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...
"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...
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...
Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders stated findings in a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report indicate the Democratic party has a clear shot at bypassing Senate Republican obstruction in order to raise the federal...
We have been told time and again that private industry is the engine driving innovation and the economy.
While to an extent this is true, we must not forget corporations' number-one priority is to maximize profits.
If...
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden proclaimed “nothing would fundamentally change.”
This made many, particularly progressives that ultimately helped get Biden elected, understandably nervous.
Then Biden released the most progressive climate and economic plan of any Democratic nominee in...
After Joe Biden was elected, South Dakota Sen. John Thune said:
“The one thing that concerns me that nobody seems to be talking about anymore is the massive amount of debt that we continue to rack...
