The Democratic Party is mainly about big corporate donors who love capitalism, not its voter base, which prefers socialism.
The old guard in Congress, both Republican and Democrat, should follow in her footsteps.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus' plan "invests in our neglected infrastructure, ends the systematic inequality in our tax system by making corporations pay their fair share, and stops the rising cost of drugs."
Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez head to Kansas in advance of that state's Aug. 7 Democratic primary.
Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer talks with Debra Deanne Olson, granddaughter of Culbert Levy Olson and co-author of a new book about his progressive political life.
"Beginning after the Great Recession and after the Occupy movement," the Democracy Now! reporter tells Chris Hedges, "a whole new [urban] resistance movement developed in America."
America does not need another elite Kennedy pretending to lead us out of the darkness of authoritarian capitalism, racism, militarism and other evils.
The Vermont senator takes the opportunity to also "talk to you about the major crises facing our country that, regrettably, Trump chose not to discuss."
The whistleblower will face Ben Cardin, a senior Democrat who is a leading voice in the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
The two discuss capitalism's inextricable links to race, gender and class, and how the U.S. left doesn't get the connections.
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