New York’s Billion-Dollar Stadium Boondoggle New York’s Billion-Dollar Stadium Boondoggle
Governor Kathy Hochul’s budget includes an enormous giveaway to the owners of the Buffalo Bills.
Apr 12, 2022 / Ross Barkan
Congress Drags Its Feet on Funding Covid Care Congress Drags Its Feet on Funding Covid Care
Elected officials have let the government run out of billions of dollars in pandemic relief funding, and they're still holding back.
Apr 1, 2022 / Aída Chávez
Biden’s Billionaire Tax Is Smart Politics for the Midterms Biden’s Billionaire Tax Is Smart Politics for the Midterms
Taxing the rich is a winning issue, no matter what the Republicans (and Joe Manchin) say.
Mar 31, 2022 / John Nichols
Want to Fight Inflation? Take the Bus Want to Fight Inflation? Take the Bus
There’s more than one way to combat a price hike.
Mar 24, 2022 / Malcolm Harris
Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry
Yet most working musicians have been marginalized or excluded from current Covid relief funding.
Mar 10, 2022 / Marc Ribot
The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic
Structural violence, social murder, and our national policy of organized abandonment.
Mar 10, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves
Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good
With public schools in limbo nationwide, the stakes couldn't be higher.
Mar 8, 2022 / Eric Blanc
The Plan to Save Californians $117 Billion a Year by Switching to Single-Payer The Plan to Save Californians $117 Billion a Year by Switching to Single-Payer
Why is universal health care seen as prohibitively expensive when the status quo costs far more?
Feb 25, 2022 / Michael Lighty
Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington
Democrats and Republicans unite in boosting Pentagon spending.
Feb 23, 2022 / Michael T. Klare
As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate
Congress could get inspiration from the tortured creation of Social Security.
Feb 7, 2022 / James Roosevelt Jr., Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, and Harold M. Ickes