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...
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...
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...
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...
Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it. Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times. One of the...
Few were likely surprised Friday when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) capitulated to the so-called "religious right" and announced it would be overturning Obama-era transgender protections against sex discrimination in health care. Then...
Four years ago, progressive radio and talk-show host and author Thom Hartmann dedicated airtime to accepting calls from listeners who wished to deliver brief messages of gratitude to Senator Bernie Sanders. Some openly sobbed. All acknowledged the...
In 2016, Barack Obama privately told advisers he would intervene if it appeared as though Bernie Sanders threatened to clinch the nomination away from Hillary Clinton. Last month's story about this threatened to undercut Obama's warning...
Donald John Trump, the forty-fifth President of the United States, has officially become the third president in American history to be impeached. Just after 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted 230-197 in favor of the...
Donald Trump has claimed Democrats are “getting nothing done in Congress.”  This, like the other 10,000 he has told, is a lie. Something that frequently gets lost in the morass of mainstream talking points is that Democrats...
In last week's New York Democratic primary, an obscure 28-year-old Democratic Socialist from the Bronx with no prior political experience upended the Democratic establishment by unseating incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. You've...