by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 2, 2018 | Blog
In the United States, back during the Great Depression, three simple words animated a grassroots upsurge that would help make this nation the world’s first mass middle-class society: Share the wealth! And the nation did. By the end of the 1960s, the top one percent’s...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 1, 2018 | Blog
A new wave of education voters may well make Dr. David Garcia the next governor of Arizona, where the professor, school administrator and Democratic nominee is taking on GOP incumbent Doug Ducey. "Democrats see education as Ducey's greatest vulnerability," according...
by Miles Mogulescu | Oct 1, 2018 | Blog
If you want to discover the truth instead of cover it up, would you appoint the accused’s lawyer to supervise and control the investigation of the charges against him? That’s exactly what the Trump White House and Senate Republicans are doing with the one-week FBI...
by Josie Mooney | Sep 28, 2018 | Blog
We’re all so busy these days that I can barely remember what I did yesterday. I may forget that paper I promised to send, or where I left my keys. Like all of you, I work hard, so it’s easy to get distracted. In sharp contrast, I remember every unwanted and aggressive...
by Jessica Juarez Scruggs | Sep 27, 2018 | Blog
“It was years ago - can’t she just let it go? Let the man be!” That’s what a West Virginian shouted to me before he slammed his phone down. I was an hour into a phone bank, calling voters in the state, asking them to contact Senator Joe Manchin and tell him to vote NO...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 26, 2018 | Blog
Democracy is tough for one-percenters. They’ve got all that money but, hypothetically, no more voting power than their chauffeur or yacht captain or nanny. In this one-person, one-vote democracy, though, they’ve got a plan to fix all that for themselves. They’re...
