Rights and Democracy
GOP Ads Cry “Crime!” But Homicides Are Actually Falling
Rather than running on their unpopular agenda, Republicans are conjuring a “crime wave” to scare voters.
The Depravity of Hedge Fund ‘Journalism’
Who slimmed down your local paper, diluted it with filler, and then doubled the price? Profiteers who don’t care about the news.
I Miss the Old GOP
The new one’s a little much.
My Newspaper Died
More than half of all daily papers in America are in the grip of just 10 syndicates, most of which don’t care about journalism.
The War on Immigrants Is a War on All Poor and Low-Income Americans
If low-income voters stick together, they can stop politicians from turning a humanitarian crisis into political theater.
Republican ‘Solutions’ Will Make Inflation Worse
If cutting corporate tax rates and making billionaires wealthier actually fixed inflation, it would have been fixed ages ago.
Still Above the Law
Can any scandal bring Trump down?
Unraveling Theocracy
Iranian women strike a blow against dictatorship.
Biden’s Marijuana Pardons Are a Seismic Shift
The immediate impacts are modest, but the order marks a top-level recognition that 100 years of cannabis prohibition were a mistake.
Safe Tap Water Should Be a Human Right
But from Michigan to Mississippi to Tribal communities in the West, millions of Americans don’t have it.
