by Miles Mogulescu | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
The NRA and its politician servants have convinced much of the media, and with much of the public, that most gun control legislation - like banning civilian ownership of military-style assault weapons, or universal background checks - would violate the Second...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
Newly installed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch uttered not a word during Monday’s oral arguments in the case of Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, but he didn’t need to. The widespread assumption is that he will provide the fifth vote in a 5-4 decision to scorn decades...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 27, 2018 | Blog
Picture the United States without student debt. It’s a country with a larger, more vibrant economy than the one we have today. It’s a country where more than a million people, including many people who never went to college, have jobs they would not otherwise have. A...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 27, 2018 | Blog
Donald Trump’s chaotic menace has been met with a fierce resistance movement that has rallied to the defense of the Dreamers, Muslims, women, and the environment. This movement has lifted Democrats in special elections and could enable them to take back the House of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 26, 2018 | Blog
If the devil wears Prada, what do America’s most destructive drug pushers wear? They wear smiles. The drug pushers we have in mind here have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, enough fatalities to decrease overall U.S. life expectancy at birth for the last two...
by Jacqueline Bediako | Feb 26, 2018 | Blog
Historically, Black children in the United States have been subject to a racist system, which not only exposes them to unspeakable violence, but also criminalization. In 1955, Emmett Till - 14 years old at the time - was abducted, tortured and lynched for allegedly...
