- May 23, 2016Proponents of stricter gun laws are building on a new strategy to defeat the NRA.
- April 7, 2016While we celebrate the victories minimum wage workers have won in California and New York, a restaurant activist reminds us that the federal minimum for tipped workers is still $2.13 an hour.
- January 29, 2016Political bluster flowed after Sandy Hook — and so did millions of dollars in subsidies.
- January 13, 2016Focusing merely on mass shootings or the passing of gun legislation does not get to the root of the systemic forces that produced the United State's love affair with violence.
- December 4, 2015How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.
- December 4, 2015How the Roberts Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment.
- October 7, 2015The National Rifle Association and other anti-gun-control groups are formidable, but political trends may be loosening their grip on lawmakers.
- June 22, 2015There were over 30,000 deaths by firearm in the United States in 2013 alone.
- March 25, 2015About half of all American households owned at least one gun in the 1970s. In 2014, only 31 percent had a firearm.
- November 5, 2014There weren’t many bright spots for progressives on Tuesday, but if you back stronger gun laws, things went better than you could have expected.