Greta Thunberg, the 15-year-old Swedish activist, on Wednesday called for a global climate strike. The day of action is set for Friday at “your school” or “anywhere you feel called.” Thunberg, who’s made headlines for her now-weekly school strikes to urge her home country to take bold climate action, made the call from Katowice, Poland, […]
With 18 members of Congress now backing the proposed House Select Committee on a Green New Deal, climate activists expressed hope Friday that the swelling support can push the nation “toward justice and a livable future for all.” Some of those lawmakers, including committee-proposer Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, joined the campaigners at a press conference on […]
As a result of creating a fake crisis in order to appease his far-right base and achieve a policy goal that has majority public opposition, President Donald Trump continues to threaten to declare a “national emergency” as a way to commandeer military funds in order to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. “Even I’m […]
Gathering for the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps town of Davos, some of the world’s wealthiest business leaders and so-called “thought leaders” focused their attention Monday on a proposal that’s gaining traction in the U.S.—a return to a far higher marginal tax rate for the wealthy as a way of correcting the […]
Amid famine and rampant disease that have spawned from Yemen’s four-year civil war, an Associated Press report out Monday revealed that food aid pouring in from across the globe, meant to curb the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, is “being snatched from the starving” by armed forces allied with the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed coalition that supports the […]
Former Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden (R) on Thursday joined the ranks of Kansas Republican leaders endorsing Democrat Laura Kelly’s run for the state’s governorship over Republican Kris Kobach. Hayden is the third high-ranking GOP Kansas official to spurn Kobach in favor of Kelly, alongside former Gov. Bill Graves and former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum. ADVERTISEMENT “After eight years of crisis, we cannot elect someone who wants to […]
Race has moved to the forefront of this year’s midterm elections to an extent unprecedented in recent decades, as Republican candidates appeal to worried white voters and Democrats warn of rampant disenfranchisement of minorities in states across the country. American politics have been riven for decades by an undercurrent of racism, played up by candidates […]
Arguing that those attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) this week have exhibited more anti-Semitism in their attacks on her for a tweet in which the congresswoman criticized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), lefty radio and podcast host Katie Halper, who is Jewish, went on the air with right-wing firebrand Laura Ingraham on Tuesday […]
Two popular progressive figures indicated that they’d formed a new alliance this weekend, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) spoke extensively with Jeremy Corbyn, head of the U.K.’s Labour Party, about their shared commitment to push bold, forward-thinking proposals. Corbyn thanked Ocasio-Cortez for “challenging the status quo” just a month into her first term in Congress […]
The Medicare for All Act of 2019 “sets a new standard for universally and equitably guaranteeing healthcare as a human right in the United States.” That’s according to a new comprehensive assessment (pdf) of the legislation released Wednesday by the National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), a movement that focuses on rights related to […]