by Thom Hartmann | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Election, Featured
FDR signs the Banking Act of 1935. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Many grassroots Democrats separated from their party in the 1990s, and the 2020 election may be the last chance to save the marriage. While the GOP has been trying to establish a semi-permanent ruling...
by Tim Wilkins | Dec 17, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Trump’s America feels more and more like the 1850s, when our country’s violent anti-immigrant movement was born. Anti-Catholic mobs, alarmed by a rapid influx of poor immigrants from Germany, Ireland and Italy, burned churches and killed Catholics in Philadelphia and...
by Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
As President Trump’s impeachment unspools, news coverage is buzzing about conspiracy theories and geopolitical rivalries. But at the root of Trump’s effort to extort Ukraine was a simple motive: Trump hoped to influence our elections to preserve his power and that of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 6, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Election, Featured
Is America’s political discourse on inequality finally getting real? In the early going of the 2020 presidential campaign, this has become a question worth asking. White House hopefuls have been condemning the maldistribution of America’s income and wealth with an...
by Thom Hartmann | Dec 5, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Supreme Court
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc There is a very simple reason why some Republicans voted for the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon, but none have so far broken ranks against Trump. That reason is a corrupted U.S. Supreme Court. In 1976 (Buckley...
by Anat Shenker-Osorio | Nov 25, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Organizing
How do we build a bigger “we”? Anat Shenker-Osorio says we do this when we talk about race and class in a way that welcomes everybody in, and leaves nobody out. This “Race-Class Narrative Strategy,” which she and UC Berkeley law professor Ian Haney López developed in...
