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  1. Trickle Down Devastation: A Single Mom Responds to Trump’s Tax Plan (Photo by Alison Stine for Equal Voice News)
    4 Apr 2017 … The president’s tax plan is going to make the nation weak. We as a nation are only as strong as our weakest members. Continue reading
  2. Sister Simone Campbell
    8 Aug 2012 … Sister Simone Campbell is the executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby NETWORK in Washington, DC. As an advocate for the poor, she lobbies on issues of healthcare, economic policy, and immigration reform. Armed with a law degree and Continue reading
  3. We Hold This Truth to Be Self-Evident: It’s Happening Before Our Very Eyes President Trump speaks to world leaders at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 19, 2017. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2020 … Democracy in America has been a series of narrow escapes. We may be running out of luck, and no one is coming to save us. For that, we have only ourselves. Continue reading
  4. For the Trump Era: Fight Not Flight Demonstrators gather outside Trump Tower to protest against President-elect Donald Trump on November 9, 2016. (Photo by Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … A lot of US citizens are now talking about leaving the country. Canada, Europe and New Zealand are popular scenarios. Moving abroad might be an individual solution. But the social solution is to stay and put up a fight. Continue reading
  5. Are We Facing a Future of Invisible Workers? This undated photo provided by Facebook shows the server room at the company's data center in Prineville, Ore. (AP Photo/Facebook, Alan Brandt)
    2 Feb 2014 … The new trusts -- Amazon, Google, Apple -- are very different from the old ones, writes George Packer. Continue reading
  6. ALEC Is Bad for the Economy
    12 Dec 2012 … This article originally appeared in Mother Jones. The American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate-funded group that generates nearly a thousand pro-business model bills per year and feeds them to state legislatures nationwide, is holding its annual policy summit in the nation’s capital this week Continue reading
  7. The View From Georgia Fulton county workers continue to count absentee ballots at State Farm Arena on November 6, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2020 presidential race between incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is still too close to call with outstanding ballots in a number of states including Georgia. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2020 … Will Georgia's communities of color come out in higher numbers for the senate run-off than they did for the main event? Continue reading
  8. Juan Cole on America’s Terrorism Double Standard Left: Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page, Right: Fort Hood shooter Nadal Hasan, (AP)
    8 Aug 2012 … Scholar and blogger Juan Cole explains how racism plays a factor in how we view terrorist incidents in the U.S. Continue reading
  9. What Happens When Refugees Are Resettled in the US? Protesters hold a sit-in and block an exit as thousands turn out for a Jan. 29, 2017 Immigration ban protest at Philadelphia International Airport. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2017 … Since President Trump issued his “Muslim ban” executive order, the country has been rocked by a cascade of political chaos, and now a critical legal battle that could soon reach the Supreme Court. But another, less visible crisis is unfolding Continue reading
  10. Obamacare Is Widening the Gap Between “Red” and “Blue” America Red and blue state map, based on returns in last four presidential elections. (Wikimedia Commons/ Angr)
    4 Apr 2014 … The rate of uninsured is now about 50 percent higher in states that refused to expand Medicaid. Continue reading