Politics
jdlasica
California’s Strong Charter Accountability Bills Weakened by the Governor—Why?
A grassroots effort to close charter loopholes made its way to the State Assembly, just to be undermined by the state’s highest office. Read more
The Trump of July
“It’s on this day that America First celebrates its independence from Crooked Hillary!” Read more
From North Carolina, a Cautionary Election Tale
With accusations of political machinations, exorbitant spending by outside political groups, and a demographically shifting state, is North Carolina’s Congressional District 9 election a sign of things to come? Read more
Austin_Slack / WCIJ
Midwest States Battle Over School Funding—and Democracy
In Michigan and Wisconsin, voters have organized massive rallies to support Democratic plans to fund education that have come under attack by Republicans. Read more
The Classic Trump Collection
Maybe we should be thankful that Trump is still so hung up on Hillary Clinton Read more
On ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette’s Birthday, We Need His Voice More Than Ever
An ode to our founder’s fierce advocacy for direct democracy by the everyday working people of this country. Read more
Mckayla Wilkes for Congress
The AOC Effect: Progressive Women Gear Up to Primary Top Democrats
Several have already emerged as buzz-worthy challengers. Read more
briethe
Does Wisconsin Have the Formula for Beating Donald Trump?
What happens in Wisconsin—over the last decade the site of some of America’s fiercest political battles—will have a lot to do with what happens to the rest of the country. Read more
Maeve in America: Strangers on a Plane
Icy air filled the small space between us and my heart began to race. Read more
The Truth about Fentanyl
Consumers around the world can easily purchase the drug over the Internet, for personal use or to sell. Read more
Stand Up and Be Counted
Communities prepare for the largest, most expensive, and most controversial Census in U.S. history. Read more
Middle America: The Politics of Our Constitutional Crisis
How Democrats might address the crisis spurred by Trump’s lawless administration. Read more
Comment: It’s a Catastrophe
If necessity is the mother of invention, catastrophe is the pathway for fundamental change. Read more
GuenterRuopp
Ohio Stumbles, with a Team Trump Nudge, Toward Nuclear and Coal
Defying all laws of competitive economics, climate change, and technological progress, the state House has voted in a ratepayer-funded bailout for two aging nuclear power plants. Read more
Vox Populist: Give the People What They Want: Socialism
The future of the party doesn’t require moving left, center, or right. Those are ideological positions. Instead, the Dems should move out to the grassroots reality of ordinary Americans. Read more
theglobalpanorama
In Parliamentary Elections, Gains by Euroskeptics More Modest than Expected
A surge in support for the Greens, who did particularly well in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, coincides with growing concern about climate change across Europe. Read more
The Steep Cost of Camden’s Charter Schools
Black families in the city have been sold “safer schools,” but must that come at the high price of over-suspension of their children? Read more
Grass is Greener
Overcoming a History of Bias in a Budding Industry
The marijuana industry is blossoming, along with multiple challenges to correcting decades of injustice around the plant. Read more
Xenophobe Trading Cards
“If we make fleeing violence easy, they’ll just flee violence more.” Read more
Christian Kortum
Waking up to the Sunrise Movement
I battled climate change via a bank shot, never directly, in part because of existential despair. After attending a meeting, I realized my mistake. Read more
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