Conflicts arise from the same individuals working for the government and working to raise money for candidates, and it damages democracy.
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Posted inCivil Rights in America
Second Thoughts About That San Francisco Mural
Instead of taking $600,000 to destroy it, spend the money commissioning an equally prominent mural depicting resilience and survival.Â
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Florida 2000 Created Our Modern Dysfunction
It’s when the GOP learned that winning washes away all your sins.
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Win for Cheap Alcohol, a Loss for Democracy
A Supreme Court ruling nullifies a core piece of the 21st Amendment: state control of alcohol markets.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Debate Over “Eliminating” Private Insurance Is Semantic Noise
Even the most far-left single-payer program out there preserves a role for private health insurance … sort of.
Posted inWorking in America
Since Washington, D.C., Won’t Oversee Its Guest Worker Programs, Washington State Will
Farmworkers also recently won bargaining rights in New York. But California—once the epicenter of farmworker rights—is falling behind.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Representative Gottheimer Asks Regulators to Deregulate Banks He’s Invested In
At the behest of a big-bank trade group, Gottheimer rallied 16 of his fellow Democrats to join him in urging financial regulators to gut a provision of Dodd-Frank that protects insured depository institutions from risky trading.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Try SurveillApp!
These busy days, it’s hard to keep track of all that you’ve been doing. You may not remember what websites you’ve visited, who you’ve talked to and texted on your phone, every angle of every room in your house, and your precise location at every waking moment. Well, we’re the big web platform companies. And […]
Posted inWorking in America
Labor Raises the Floor in Nashville
As construction booms in an increasingly progressive city, workers find the power to unionize in the otherwise non-union South.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The General Store of the U.S.A.
Do Walmart and Amazon’s logistics triumphs reveal a path forward for a centrally planned economy?
