Stopping the Dance of Death: Building a 21st Century Anti-War Movement
Phyllis Bennis discusses how to win a cease-fire in Gaza, prevent a nuclear war, and shift U.S. policy and funds away from imperialist wars.
The Donor Revolt for Charity Reform
Prominent philanthropists, national funders, and policy organizations are launching a campaign to call for common sense charity reforms.
Billionaire Wealth Is Soaring. We Need Progressive Taxation Now.
There are now 813 billionaires with $5.7 trillion in wealth, making the ten-figure club even more powerful economically and politically. We need a progressive taxation system to reverse inequality.
Labor Holds The Line in Argentina
Organized labor offers a counterbalance to democratic backsliding, Argentina’s recent experience shows.
Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth: Up 88% over Four Years
Four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has 737 billionaires with a combined wealth of $5.529 trillion.
Biden’s Populist Budget Marks the Overdue End of Trickle-Down Economics
A budget that reflects the needs of the people rather than corporate profit and excessive wealth is a good step in the right direction.
What Are Donor-Advised Funds and How Do They Work?
DAFs channel huge amounts of cash to ‘culture war’ groups – anonymously. Why do people get tax breaks for using them?
Militarized Funding in Biden Budget Totals Well Over $1 Trillion (and it will grow)
Unless the administration changes its approach, these wars will continue to deprive us of the security we actually need.
Congress Should Embrace the Vitality That Immigration Brings
We must refuse to be divided by those who want to scare us, and enact some genuine immigration reform.
The Next Big Billionaire Thing: Hunting Humans?
Can we actually start taxing the rich again? We had better.
A Super Bowl Note to Taylor Swift: Love the Music, Park the Private Jet
Congrats, Taylor, for your talent and decades of consistently great songwriting. You deserve all the accolades and rewards. But I have one request…
Rural Inequality vs. Grassroots Land Reform: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement Turns Forty
Rural land concentration compounds inequality and threatens democracy. Through grassroots land reform, this movement offers hope.
Pentagon Pollution Is a Global Embarrasment
The Department of Defense remains the most carbon-intensive institution in the world. It’s time to stop dumping money into the military.
Mexico Must Stand up to Agribusiness Oligopolies on GM Corn Ban
U.S. and Canadian civil society groups are denouncing their own governments’ efforts, driven by the agribusiness industry, to repeal Mexico’s proposed ban on genetically modified corn.
Scraping Away the Anti-Worker, Anti-Racial Equity Vestiges of the Reagan Era
The Biden administration aims to undo contracting policy holdovers from the 1980s to boost public investment benefits for workers and their communities.