by Adrienne Evans | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog, Conservatism, Health, Rural
After years of the Idaho legislature’s failure to enact Medicaid expansion, leaving 70,000 in the state without care, the citizens of Idaho took action. Last year, Idaho’s outgoing governor Butch Otter came out with a sudden call for the passage of Medicaid expansion,...
by Will Tanzman | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election
On a Wednesday evening in February, Marta Popadiak, the organizing director for People’s Lobby and Reclaim Chicago, was busy making phone calls to voters in Chicago’s 33rd ward for left-wing Chicago City Council candidate Rossana Rodriguez. With each call, she asked...
by Jill Richardson | Apr 5, 2019 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Supreme Court
For years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. In 2005, another ruling...
by Mehrdad Azemun | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog, Election
The #PeoplesWave of grassroots champions rising up to reclaim our government has just begun. After taking back the U.S. House in November with an unprecedented number of women and people of color, we scored important wins in Chicago’s municipal elections in February....
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Inequality
People who are trying to do good — with a Green New Deal, for instance, or Medicare for All — regularly find themselves confronting a simple and sometimes sneering gotcha question: So where’s the money coming from? How about we start putting this same simple question...
by Jim Hightower | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Rural, Trade
Have you noticed how often Donald Trump prefaces his comments and tweets with phrases like “frankly,” “to tell the truth,” and “believe me”? More than a verbal tic, these qualifiers subliminally admit that being frank, truthful, and believable are not normal for him....
