U.S. Politics / Elections

The thousands of low-wage, hourly, and gig-work employees who are getting sent home amid the crisis need an income guarantee that goes beyond traditional unemployment insurance.

Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.

Ultimately, finding an optimal tax rate for the super-wealthy is a moral and political issue as much as an economic one.

If there is a vision of U.S. patriotism that is redeemable, it must surely draw on Seeger's insistence that it encompass both ardent dissent and robust internationalism.

In cities such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, working people have been all but priced out, pushed into ever more distant fringes and suburbs.

Company founder Jeff Bezos did not become the world’s richest man by letting employees enjoy free-range lifestyles.

As it turns out, Donald Trump is not very good at running the U.S. government. The question is: should we be sad about this?

When it comes to defeating Trump's bigoted and ignorant foreign policy, we are not up against an anomaly. We’re up against a history.

Lessons from the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Trump’s policy is a top-down nationalism for America’s rich, when what we need—both here and abroad—is an internationalism from below.