Orson Aguilar is president of The Greenlining Institute.
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Orson Aguilar
Democrats Can’t Run from Identity Politics
Political pundits say progressives are alienating working class whites by talking too much about race. They're wrong. more
Darvin Atkeson
California Leads the Fight Against Trump
For decades, California has focused on standing up for values that will make life better and safer for every American, and its actions will hopefully send ripples nationwide. more
Will Congress Spark a New Great Recession?
In mid-March, the U.S. Senate acted to deregulate banks, rolling back protections designed to keep them from driving the economy into a ditch—again. more
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Sessions Reboots the Failed War on Drugs
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions seem hell-bent on reviving one of the worst policy failures in U.S. history, the “War on Drugs.” Party poopers. more
Rick Reinhard
Trump Seeks to Neuter Financial Watchdog
Recognizing that dishonest lending practices led to the 2008 financial crash, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Now, President Donald Trump has tapped one of the Bureau’s leading opponents to run it more
Trump’s Cult of White Victimhood
We shouldn't be surprised that the Justice Department may be investigating alleged discrimination against white university students. Donald Trump is once again stoking racial divides so that he can play hero for 'victimized whites'. more
Bill would Gut Consumer Protections
The Financial Choice Act would chip away at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's independence to protect everyday people from predatory lending. That's good news for Wall Street, but bad news for the rest of us. more
At Five Years Old, Obamacare Is Uneven and Incomplete—But It's Working
On its fifth anniversary, the secret of Obamacare is that it’s working. Daniel Borman/Flickr more
State of the Union a Missed Opportunity for Obama
President Obama advocated many of the right things in his State of the Union address. more
We should get immigration reform right
It's heartening that Congress and President Obama are addressing comprehensive immigration reform, something that's long overdue. But everyone involved needs to make sure that any legislation really moves us toward a better, fairer system. Pol... more
We need fundamental economic changes
These Occupy protests really have come to embody the 99 percent for whom they speak. This group is us. It looks like America, while the wealthy and powerful 1 percent doesn’t. more
150 years after the Civil War, race still haunts us
One hundred and fifty years ago, on April 12, 1861, the first shots of the Civil War were fired. A century and a half later, the issue of race still haunts us. more
