Concentrating on James Hodgkinson’s political leanings obscures the real problem of gun violence in America—and why it’s happening.
Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier, professor of politics at Occidental College, is author of eight books, including Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Feisty Group That Exposed Wells Fargo’s Wrongdoing
The whistleblowing heroes are the bank’s employees who formed the Committee for Better Banks—not that you’d know this from the media’s coverage.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Trump’s Housing Hypocrisy
The president owes his wealth to government-subsidized housing, but his new budget slashes housing aid for the poor.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Anti-Trump Movement: Recover, Resist, Reform
The profusion of citizen organizing as defense—and offense
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Trump Doesn’t Have the Balls
The president declines to throw out baseball’s ceremonial first pitch on Monday and face a certain barrage of boos.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Anti-Trump Suburbanites Force New Jersey Republican to Think Again on Health-Care Bill
Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen’s defection signals the power of the anti-Trump grassroots movement—and the vulnerability of many suburban Republicans.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Will Trump’s Tax Records Be the Next Pentagon Papers?
A broad coalition of activists is agitating to force the release of Donald Trump’s tax returns, but it may turn out that the only way we’ll ever see his records is if someone leaks them to the media.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Turning the March Into a Movement
Reflections on Saturday’s protest
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Twenty in ’20
Dreaming of 2020? Here’s how 20 potential Democratic White House contenders stack up.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
One Is a Great Man. The Other Is the President-Elect.
On John Lewis and Donald Trump
