Paul Buchheit: The 50-Year Takeaway From Middle-Class America
We should be demanding the same benefits enjoyed by less wealthy but more progressive nations.
George Monbiot: Wealth Curse
Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich?
Greg Thielen: As the World Burns
At this very moment, as my pen inks this page, the entire Western United States is scorching. Death Valley recorded a high of 140 Fahrenheit.
Abby Zimet: Planet Earth To Outer Space, When Bezos Blasts Off, Please Keep Him There
With enough money to end world hunger or curb climate change or house the homeless but evidently little will to do so, the founder of the dystopian empire of Amazon and the world’s second-richest man with an estimated $186 billion is instead taking an insouciant space ride…
Sam Pizzigati: Our Post-Trump Democratic Prospects | What the Ming Dynasty Can Tell Us
‘Good government’ has always rested on equitable distributions of wealth and power.
Paul Buchheit: How Right-Wing Conservatives Have Laid Waste to America for 50 Years
Thanks to a half century of insidious “trickle-down” philosophy—which astoundingly continues to be preached by many of the super-rich—inequality has stretched our nation nearly to the breaking point.
Brett Wilkins: Study Shows World’s Richest 1% Emit More Than Twice as Much CO2 as Poorest 50%
The over-consumption of a wealthy minority is fueling the climate crisis, yet it is poor communities and young people who are paying the price.
Steven Pressman: Democratic plans for raising taxes on the rich|A guide for the middle class
It’s hardly surprising that if a Democrat wins the White House, taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations will probably go up. How they’ll go up is the more interesting question.
Rebecca Gordon: What’s Wrong With the Republicans?
The roots of much of the turmoil in the current Republican Party are centuries old. They go back, in fact, to the twin crimes that have helped shape this country from its very beginning: slavery and imperial expansion.
Norman Solomon: Corporate Media Supports Anyone But Sanders or Warren
What’s at stake includes democracy—the informed consent of the governed—and so much more.
George Monbiot: Start Making Sense
By understanding the psychological buttons they’re pressing, we can stop demagogues from destroying our democracy.
George Monbiot: Embarrassment of Riches
Every day, private jets take off from London carrying a single passenger, mostly flying to Russia and the US. Each of them is filled with 32,000 litres of fuel. That’s as much fossil energy as a small African town might use in a year.
Julia Conley: A Solution for All Generations
With her plan for Social Security expansion, Elizabeth Warren demands that the rich pay their fair share to lift 5 million out of poverty: “No one who spends 30 years working and contributing to Social Security should retire in poverty.”
Frances Moore Lappé, Zachary Field: Who Can Afford a Green New Deal? We Can!
Despite ridicule by Republican leaders, calls for a Green New Deal resonate with 80 percent of Americans.
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