Today is the nineteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed almost 3000 of us on this date in 2001. It feels wrong to write about daily news today and yet, as we approach 200,000 dead from a mismanaged pandemic and face unprecedented assaults on our national government, it also feels wrong not to.
May 17, 2017While Congress is working to shield overpaid executives from scrutiny, a business-owner-turned-state-legislator is working to rein in runaway CEO pay because, he says, "there need to be limits."
March 7, 2017It's important not to let the wave of state bills trying to criminalize protests frighten us away from pushing back at every level.
February 7, 2017Progressives’ answer to ALEC is helping to build power from the ground up.
November 10, 2016In states and municipalities across the country, voters showed strong support for getting big money out of politics and empowering ordinary citizens.
October 19, 2016Though some states' efforts to suppress voter turnout have been rampant, others are trying to make it easier for citizens to cast ballots on Election Day.
May 9, 2016In a year when many states are making it harder to vote, some are pushing in the opposite direction.
April 9, 2016The pathway is cleared for 21 kids to take the Obama administration to court over US climate policies.
March 10, 2016Twenty-one kids were in court this month in Oregon to demand a climate fix.
January 14, 2016Ranchers demanding laissez-faire land management for their farms should instead be protesting the way the feds watched idly as giant meat-packing companies came to dominate the US beef production chain.
