How to Win a Green New Deal in Your State
By Ashley Dawson New York just became the first US state to pass a major Green New Deal policy. After four years of organizing, the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) is now in the New…
Politics
Debt Ceiling ‘Debate’ a Massive Deception
Commentary by Richard D. Wolff Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily…
The Inflation Reduction Act Is an Invitation to Organizers
Kate Aronoff The Inflation Reduction Act would not have happened without the movement for a Green New Deal, but it shouldn’t be confused for one. The climate left (broadly defined) now faces a novel problem:…
How We Win
A summary of George Lakey’s guide to non-violent, direct-action campaigning By Carl Hintz How We Win, by George Lakey, is an activists’ manual of how to run successful nonviolent direct-action campaigns in polarized times. Direct…
Eight Lessons from Bernie Sanders’s New Book
Bernie is angry about capitalism. You should be too. By Yaseen Al-Sheikh It’s an exciting and frustrating time to be a socialist in the United States of America. On the one hand, the two presidential…
Clarence Thomas Is the Most Corrupt of an Extremely Corrupt Supreme Court
By Branko Marcetic A bombshell new report reveals just how extensively Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has allowed billionaire interests to buy him favors. But he’s far from the only one on the powerful court…
GOP Filibuster Blocks Equal Rights Amendment
By Jessica Corbett On April 6, Equal Rights Amendment supporters slammed the vast majority of U.S. Senate Republicans for filibustering a resolution that would make the 100-year-old measure the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The…
Who’s Behind NC’s Extreme Abortion Ban?
By Saige Smith NC House Bill 533 – A Total Abortion Ban On March 26, North Carolina Republicans filed the first anti-abortion legislation of the session, and it’s bad. This bill would ban abortion from…
Q&A with George Lakey
By Carl Hintz On January 18th George Lakey, a long time activist and author, visited the Raleigh (Quaker) Friends Meeting to share from his new memoir Dancing with History: A life for Peace and Justice….
‘Cancel This Failed Experiment’: Physicians Tell Biden HHS to End Medicare Privatization Pilot
By Jake Johnson A national physician group this week called for the complete termination of a Medicare privatization scheme that the Biden White House inherited from the Trump administration and later rebranded—while keeping intact its…