Don’t Just Tax the Rich — Attack Inequality at the Root
To address the US’s severe inequality, we can and should raise taxes on the rich. But we can also restructure markets so that they don’t produce such unequal incomes in the first place, by reining in corporate power and our predatory financial sector.
UN Honors Indigenous Midwives as Guardians of Knowledge and Well-being
The United Nations marks the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples by celebrating Indigenous midwives, ancestral knowledge, cultural continuity, and spiritual traditions while calling for stronger recognition, protections, and support for Indigenous-led care.
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Trump has used government powers to target more than 100 perceived enemies
Through ICE arrests, criminal investigations, firings and executive orders, the president has launched a sweeping campaign of retribution. One judge called his actions "a shocking abuse of power."
Paul Krugman and Gabriel Zucman: A Conversation About Inequality | Portside
In my writing about wealth concentration and oligarchy, I steal a lot from lean heavily on the truly work of Gabriel Zucman, who is a hugely important researcher (winner of the 2023 Clark Medal) who is also starting to play a major role in policy. I’ve talked to him before, but this seemed like a good time to bring him back. . . .
Socialists Are Out-Organizing the Democratic Establishment
The Democratic establishment’s hysteria over the Democratic Socialists of America’s organizing methods has it exactly backward: the Democratic Party has almost no ability to democratically organize voters, while DSA is reviving grassroots campaigning.
This global movement is winning legal rights for nature.
A Canadian town just gave trees legal rights. With 700 initiatives in 66 countries, a fast-growing movement is aiming to reshape humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
A politics that keeps comrades racialized as white at the center hasn’t socialized power. It’s shuffled some money and left the rest of empire standing
The healing protocols and tools were tested on men. Then they were handed to women without asking if our disconnection or disembodiment looked the same.
Keean Bexte and the Business of Manufactured Outrage Oh, dear. Yet another one of these wannabe rage baitors who was apparently indoctrinated by Prairie urban myths. There’s a difference between …
