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Why the 'Ideas Primary' Matters

U.S. presidential contests may seem never-ending, but if the debate is about policy - instead of personality - is that such a bad thing? The 2020 presidential campaign began long before the midterms ended. Reporters have already started covering the gaggle of...

Could Elizabeth Warren Be The Next President?

Over the past ten years, I’ve written hundreds of articles on topics from Medicare For All, voter suppression, Constitutional law, to Trump’s gold-plated toilet.  None has generated more excitement than an article I wrote in December, 2014, urging Elizabeth...

What LA Teachers Tell Us About Rising Inequality

Back during the 1960s and 1970s, in cities, suburbs, and small towns across the United States, teacher strikes made headlines on a fairly regular basis. Teachers in those years had a variety of reasons for walking out. They struck for the right to bargain. They struck...

The Indignity of Work Without Pay

In the midst of the longest government shutdown in history, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this week launched a “Dignity of Work” listening tour. The Democratic senator who just won reelection by nearly seven points in the red state of Ohio explained the concept to...

Organizing To Win Governing Power

As we enter a perilous period in American history, with Donald Trump’s bottomless insecurity fueling white supremacy and fascism on the one hand and environmental Armageddon on the other, there is an opening of historic proportions for mass revolutionary organizing....

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