This is a story whose reach extends from the lowliest working stiff to the highest court in the land. It concerns a massive corporate-driven rejiggering of the social contract with regard to access to the courts, impacting a huge segment of U.S. workers and virtually every consumer. And it’s something most people have never even heard about. More>>
Tag: the progressive
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‘Bridge Broadly and Creatively’: An Interview with Dar Williams
In person, Dar is as warm, gracious, and lovely as her music. More>>
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The Right Turns on Donald Trump
Perhaps never before has a presidential contender aroused as much angst among his own tribe as Donald Trump. Key Republicans and conservatives are alternately refusing to back him or backing him with pinched noses, to ward off the stench. Here are some voices on the right speaking to what’s wrong with the GOP nominee.More>>
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Weapons Laws: Your Government Inaction
Here are examples of failed bills and resolutions from just the current (2015-2016) session, culled from Congress.gov. None advanced beyond being referred to committees. All bill names are actual.More>>
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Do Libertarian Converts Know What the Party Actually Stands For?
The party is a mishmash of high principles and pure nuttiness. More>>
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Book Review: Can We Agree on Being Green?
In his State of the Union address, the President called on the nation to “make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water.” He called protecting the environment “a cause beyond party and beyond factions.” More>>
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Meet Novella Carpenter, Writer, Farmer, Eater.
Novella has grown lettuce for the Black Panthers, dumpster dived gourmet restaurants to feed her pigs, and lived for an entire month on what she produced on a vacant lot in downtown Oakland. More>>
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Clinton Emails Were ‘Born Secret,’ an Historically Dubious Classification
Did these emails discuss covert operations? Did they reveal the identities of undercover agents? Not necessarily. More>>
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Walker’s Supreme Court Pick: Affirmative Action as Bad as Slavery
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a past and possibly future GOP presidential contender, has just tossed a dripping hunk of red meat to his party’s conservative base by appointing to the state Supreme Court a lawyer who believes affirmative action is as morally reprehensible as slavery and that allowing same-sex couples to wed “will eventually rob the institution of marriage of any discernible meaning.” More>>
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Do Legislators Ignore Public Input? Here’s How Much.
Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin, perhaps emboldened by their success in crushing public employee unions and redrawing voter boundaries to enhance their electoral success, last year rammed through a series of controversial bills. They voted to dismantle the Government Accountability Board, a nonpartisan state agency charged with enforcing elections and ethics rules, and replace it with commissions of partisan appointees. And they revamped state campaign laws to dramatically increase the flow of money into the electoral process. More>>
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A Cuppa Coffee with Voter ID Whistleblower Todd Allbaugh
Delivering a sandwich to a young man at the table behind me, Todd Allbaugh explains that, in the grilling process, “it got turned up a little higher than normal.” The same might be said for Allbaugh. His life has been cranked to eleven. More>>