PORTLAND, Maine — Bernie Sanders drew 6,500 people to southern Maine on Labor Day Monday to discuss building a grassroots movement to fight the oligarchy, and to introduce them to Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and Marine veteran running for Senate with the Vermont independent’s early support. At the “Fighting …
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Zohran Mamdani has the penthouse crowd aflutter. The Democratic mayoral nominee’s bold, simple plan to make New York affordable for everyday citizens — freeze the rents, make buses and child care free — would be funded by a meager two percent tax hike on New York’s millionaire class. The ultrawealthy …
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P eople are starting to realize where the energy future lies — as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last week, “The sun is rising on a clean energy age.” Sun, wind, and batteries made up 95 percent of new electric generation last year around the world. In May, China …
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Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin has recently been fretting about the increasing use of the term “oligarchy” by her fellow Democrats. Slotkin apparently feels that “oligarchy” has no resonance beyond America’s coasts. Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders has been drawing record crowds beyond those coasts to his anti-oligarchy rallies. Americans, Sanders has …
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President Donald Trump’s administration has backed off its plan to fire 83,000 employees at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA will still get rid of about 30,000 employees, a figure that includes the thousands it has already let go. After arguing for months that the proposed cuts …
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Wherever corporate power is running roughshod over culture, the climate, the economy, or our politics, progressives can count on Naomi Klein to provide a clear-eyed assessment of the damage and to offer pathways to resist with hope, rather than cower in despair. A social activist and public intellectual, Klein is …
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A group of creatives stood slightly dazed in a Four Seasons hotel conference room in Houston, staring at three random ping-pong tables. A few were still bleary-eyed and jet-lagged after flying in from Iceland, Prague, London, and other parts of the world. Over the past few months, they had been …
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Donald Trump’s second term hasn’t even hit the 100-day mark, and the president has already made clear that his priority is not fulfilling the promises of prosperity he made to working class Americans on the campaign trail, but ensuring that the wealthy backers who fueled his victory get their payout. …
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OMAHA, NEBRASKA — It’s a frigid Friday night in Omaha, and Bernie Sanders has come to this riverside Nebraska city to sound a battlecry for democracy — and rally Americans to fight the rising threats of authoritarianism and billionaire rule. The thin ice floes careening down the Missouri River offer …
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Just weeks after President Donald Trump took office, megadonor turned special government employee Elon Musk has penetrated deep into the heart of the federal administrative apparatus. His so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) now enjoys access to communication channels and sensitive information at agencies including the Treasury Department, the Office …
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