Despite being attacked from many sides so soon after it was introduced, the proposed program may be our best hope out of a climate and economic quagmire.
It is time for the dinosaurs in power to wean themselves off fossil fuels and support the progressive proposal, or face extinction.
It leads the way among several countries running circles around the U.S. in infrastructure development, which all have one thing in common.
Our longest-serving president would leave a deep mark on the American psyche. But was he saint or villain, and what was his true legacy?
California offers a testing ground to make broad changes using an approach the GOP has leveraged to the hilt in recent decades.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the 22 representatives behind the effort are proposing to finance it similarly to how FDR funded the New Deal.
The author says the plan must be better than its Depression-era namesake if it is to destroy poverty and fossil fuel dependence at the same time.
Is packing the top court “necessary to save democracy”?
In one of the most prosperous societies ever to exist on earth, nearly half the population struggles to make ends meet.
While news outlets are eager to report on the recent primary losses of the insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party, there also have been plenty of wins.
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