Rights and Democracy
Trump’s EPA Is a Huge Cancer Risk
Industry-friendly regulators are letting chemical companies flood the country with toxins. It should be a scandal.
‘Little Women’ and the American Attitude Toward Poverty
We’ve advanced beyond Little Women’s 19th century gender roles. Let’s get past its outdated moralizing about poverty, too.
The Court Ruling That Sold Our Democracy
Ten years after Citizens United, the damage is broad and deep — but we can still fix it.
Why Do We Have School Lunch Debt at All?
We live in a nation where food is plentiful but millions of children experience hunger and food insecurity.
Evangelicals for Trump
Because God is love?
Learning from King’s Last Campaign
Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful.
Felonious Democracy
The leaders of our democracy don’t actually like it when people participate, but Americans are a rebellious bunch.
It’s Like Looking in a Mirror
Who’s the orangest of them all?
Trump’s Judaism Order Has Nothing to Do With Fighting Anti-Semitism
The man who called neo-Nazis “very fine people” has no business defining anti-Semitism for the rest of us.
A Holiday Gift to the People, from the People
How small shrimpers in Texas beat a giant polluting corporation — just in time for the holidays.