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(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 11, 2018
When Will Democrats Start #Resisting GOP Voter Suppression? Democrats need to come up with social and economic policies that are strong enough to bring their base to the polls. But these voters also deserve to know that their rights are being systematically suppressed -- and that they can do something about it by voting incumbents out of office.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The GOP's 100-Year War Is Bigger Than Taxes or Trump While the nation obsesses about Trump, he and his fellow Republicans are radically rewiring our political and economic order. The tax bill they passed at the end of last year proves it. While we ponder Trump's state of mind, the leaders of his party are busy reshaping the country in their own morally misshapen image.

(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 21, 2017
The Tax Bill Is a Lifeline for Democrats. Will They Sink or Swim? With this tax bill, the Republican Party has issued its legislative manifesto. It has declared its allegiance to the wealthiest and most powerful among us, and proclaimed its willingness to sacrifice everyone else on the flaming altar of unbridled greed. That's an opportunity for Democrats, but it's not a guarantee of victory.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 14, 2017
Charles Barkley's Wise Words to Democrats on Alabama Barkley is right when he says this vote is a "wake-up call" for Democrats. They will not always have the good fortune to run against a candidate who reaches Moore's staggering levels of venality, ineptitude, and moral perversion. Barkley's meaning couldn't have been clearer: Democrats can't take black voters, or poor voters of any race, for granted.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 7, 2017
"Every Darn Penny": The GOP's Philosophy on Death and Taxes The Republican tax bill remains extremely unpopular, according to current polls. Unless they can distract the public with other issues, they may pay a steep political price for it. Apparently, voters know when Republicans are lying -- excuse me, when they're being philosophical -- about taxes. As many observers have noted, the GOP bill is an act of class warfare.

SHARE        Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Mulvaney's In, Bankers Win, and Trump Shafts Americans Again On his first day on the job, Mulvaney froze all hiring and rule-making, bringing the bureau's critical work to an effective standstill. The banks had won the first round. And Trump proved once again that, when it comes to fighting for working Americans, he's just another fast-talking huckster.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 27, 2017
Orrin Hatch's "Bullcrap" on Taxes Is Exactly That The GOP tax bill is exactly what Sherrod Brown says it is: a tax giveaway to the rich. And it takes away from working-class students to give to those who need it least. Behind all the bellowing and bluster, Hatch's tax plan is nothing more than another giveaway to his rich patrons. "Bullcrap"? Ask not for whom the bull tolls, Senator. The whole country can see this bull tolls for thee.

SHARE        Friday, November 17, 2017
Trump's HHS Pick Alex Azar Is the Worst Pharma Bro of All Nominating Alexander Azar to run Health and Human Services is like pinning a sheriff's badge on Billy the Kid. For all his polish and small-town charm, when it comes to pharmaceutical predation, the mild-mannered Azar puts blowhard "pharma bros" like Martin Shkreli to shame. Now, unless his nomination is blocked, he's about to be handed the keys to our nation's health.

SHARE        Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Go Left, Dems: 7 Ways Democrats Are Misreading the November 7 Results Last week's victories offer only a temporary distraction from the Democratic Party's ongoing troubles. Voter approval of the party is at a 25-year low, down to 37 percent from March of this year. Perhaps even more significantly, approval is down markedly among nonwhites and young voters, two groups the party needs for long-term success.

SHARE        Monday, November 13, 2017
Why We Need to Confront the Billionaires' Paradise This concentration of power must be investigated, and then it must be confronted -- by a majority determined to take back the economy and democracy from the powerful few who have made it their plaything, before it's too late. It's time to "strike back" -- not against wealthy individuals, but against oligarchy itself.

SHARE        Monday, November 6, 2017
Donna Brazile, the DNC, and Democratizing the Democrats It's easy to be cynical about the tone Brazile adopts as she tells her story. She's shocked, shocked, to learn that money and insider connections wield undue influence inside her party's establishment. And she's quick to pronounce the DNC innocent of actions, including her own, that are already widely known.

(7 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Dems Want to Ditch Leaders and Move Left; They're Right Movements have energy, independence, and commitment. They can reshape a party's leadership, infuse it with new ideas, and populate it with activists. That's because a movement is more than a party. It's something broader and deeper, something that infuses its members' lives with purpose and meaning.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Why "Centrists" Will Sink the Democrats, If They Haven't Already The bipartisan, centrist political consensus is breaking down. That's not an accident, and it's not an injustice. It's the result of repeated failures, both abroad and at home. The question is, what will replace it: something better, or something worse? If Democrats continue to follow the losing ways of the past, we probably won't like the answer.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 21, 2017
Trump's Muslim Bans Impoverish Us All At its heart, this isn't an economic issue. It's about who we are. For many years we thought of the United States as the last, best hope for refugees feeling oppression and immigrants seeking a better life. We should welcome refugees and immigrants to the United States because it's good for our society, for our economy, and for our nation. But most of all, we should welcome them because it is the right and moral thing to do.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 18, 2017
How to Profit from the Coming Trump Apocalypse Trump, unstable as he is, is not an aberration in today's political system. He's a reflection of it. Our political process was broken before he came along. It will still be broken after he's gone, unless something is done to change it. Trump must be opposed, just as Ryan, McConnell, and Vice President Mike Pence must be opposed. But so must the system that gave them power.

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 6, 2017
The "Center-Left" Had Its Chance; It's Time For Something New The center-left rarely even chastised, much less prosecuted, bankers for their criminality in the runup to the economic crisis, whose devastation is still felt around the globe. Instead, it left them in charge of their institutions and in possession of their freedom and their ill-gotten gains.

SHARE        Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Death in a Dead Land We still haven't stopped this endless river of blood, and it looks like we never will -- at least, not until the oil stops flowing and the coal stops burning and we all drown in the waters of a flood that turns the Las Vegas desert green, a flood we knew was coming but did nothing to prevent.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 30, 2017
What Hugh Hefner Had in Common With Right-Wing Christian Doctrine When I read that the conservative media was attacking Hugh Hefner, my first reaction was surprise. Yes, he was progressive on a number of issues. But there was a deeply conservative dimension to his exploitation of women and his rejection of societal limits on that exploitation.

SHARE        Thursday, September 28, 2017
Can Centrism Be a Movement? The Answer May Surprise You Voter-based centrism could become the movement of the future. But insider centrism, the kind that brings leaders of both parties together with their corporate funders, will always be the plaything of the elite. If the Democrats don't turn their backs on it, their party will be as dead as the stars that shine in the autumn sky over Washington.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 14, 2017
Medicare For All Can Reshape the "Art of the Possible" Medicare For All can be the flag for all of these health activism fronts, and all of them can be pursued with a single, unifying goal in mind: Dollar by dollar, life by life, public health insurance must be defended and expanded until it is available to everyone.

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