New York and San Francisco both suffer from soaring rents and gentrification, despite decades of regulation. How Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant plans to do affordable housing right.
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The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
The biggest political phenomenon in America today is a revolt against the “ruling class” of insiders that have dominated Washington for decades.
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Why Progressives Must Stay United
The Republican strategy is to divide and conquer. Progressives must stay united in a powerful movement to take back our economy and democracy.
Hillary Clinton won’t propose reinstating a bank break-up law known as the Glass-Steagall Act.
If we continue in the direction we’re headed we’ll soon have a health insurance system dominated by two or three mammoth for-profit corporations capable of squeezing employees and consumers for all they’re worth.
President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the dangers of an unbridled “military-industrial complex,” as he called it. Now it’s a military-industrial-congressional complex. After Citizens United, it’s less bridled than ever.
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Fighting Economic Apartheid in America
We must stop economic apartheid in America.
In recent cases on redistricting and gay marriage, Justice Kennedy reveals himself as a vanishing breed of West Coast moderate Republican.
The Department of Labor proposed a new overtime pay threshold of $50,400. This is a big deal. Some 5 million workers will get a raise.
What if every county, city, and state in America followed Santa Cruz County’s example, and held the big banks accountable for their felonies?