To Save Main Street, Tax Wall Street

To Save Main Street, Tax Wall Street

All too often these days, large U.S. corporations and Wall Street banks seem more interested in tapping overseas markets than in growing a customer base at home. When local communities in America’s heartland suffer, it’s no skin off their backs. By...
The Human Cost of Trump’s Muslim Ban

The Human Cost of Trump’s Muslim Ban

Legal challenges to Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban” are mounting. Federal judges have suspended the order, which blocks immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and suspends refugee settlement from everywhere, while federal cases wind their way...
The End of an Alliance for Police Reform

The End of an Alliance for Police Reform

In July 2016, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch committed the Department of Justice to investigating the shooting of Alton Sterling, a black man who was murdered by police outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge. The move represented the deepening of a tangible...
The Banksters Are Free at Last

The Banksters Are Free at Last

Of all the people suffering economic pain today, who should get priority attention from the new president and Congress? Regular folks in our country might say that those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder — the poor and downtrodden working class — ought to be...