November 29, 2017Better Markets' Dennis Kelleher answers our questions about the power struggle at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, battling with Wall Street lobbyists on K Street and life in the swamp during the Trump era.
January 3, 2017Campus witch hunts have nurtured the very threat to our free speech they allegedly sought to root out.
November 11, 2016Inside the Occupy, Black Lives Matter and Trump movements, there is powerful shared terrain. A coalition must be built that cuts across racial groups, and our deep urban and rural divides.
November 10, 2016We don’t know at the moment exactly what Trump will do. He probably doesn’t know himself. But we need to prepare ourselves.
July 18, 2016Attacking inequality means both raising wages at the bottom and doing away with outsized compensation at the top.
April 6, 2016Ordinary people in California and across the country have invested their time and talent toward the goal of lifting working families out of poverty -- and the movement is gaining momentum.
March 11, 2016Grassroots organizing and protest has fueled a wave of outrage about policies that crush the poor.
January 27, 2016Democrat or Republican, our capitalist system has always reflected the next party in the White House.
December 8, 2015As the saying goes, they (the 1 percent at the top) only call it class warfare when the rest of us (the 99 percent) are fighting back. Since the economic meltdown of 2008’s Great Recession and the Occupy movement of protest and action, the specter of vast, ever-expanding income inequality across the planet has been countered by a growing awareness among the rest of us of the gravity of the problem, its disastrous implications for ...
May 28, 2015We need a strong anti-poverty movement, led by the people who understand what poverty really is, why it happens, and how we could create workable solutions.
