by Tom Conway | Aug 27, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Future of Work, Inequality
Jamie Dimon and friends. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons / Financial Times / cc Gordon Gekko found religion last week. Gekko, the lead in the 1987 movie “Wall Street” about capitalism gone corruptly amok, is most famous for his phrase: “greed is good.” Last Monday,...
by George Goehl | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
You would think after a white nationalist murdered 22 people and injured dozens more in El Paso, Donald Trump would lay off the hate, even just for a moment. Apparently he’s not capable. Or not willing. Whether it’s immigration raids, cutbacks on legal immigration, or...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 23, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality
South of the border, here in the United States, we Americans tend not to pay much attention to our northern neighbors. Entire election cycles can come and go without anyone running for national office saying anything significant about Canada. But that’s all changing....
by Connie Huynh | Aug 22, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health
From Connecticut to Washington, New York and West Virginia, People's Action members rallied across the nation this Tuesday to demand that Congress and Trump put #PeopleOverPharma profits. Twelve People’s Action member groups participated in the events, which were part...
by State Rep. Mari Cordes (D-VT) | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Leigh Friedman
We all want a new President – but at People’s Action, we know it will take a lot more than one candidate at the top to turn this country around. That’s why we’re recruiting and training more than 500 grassroots community leaders to run for elected office at every...
by James Mumm | Aug 20, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Featured
Reeling from grim news about climate change, I took a break this summer to recharge my own batteries and see if today’s best speculative fiction writers could imagine us into a better future. There is a growing genre of climate science fiction, or “cli-fi,” which...
