Recent price increases in the U.S., and demands for a forceful response by the Federal Reserve, have brought back memories of the 1970s and all of the economic and political disasters of those years.
Americans shouldn't have to be concerned about members of Congress being more focused on their stock portfolio than on the country's problems and their constituents' best interests.
While my people suffer violence and repression at every turn, the Biden administration offers little but platitudes, lacking a clear plan for a path towards global safety and equality for Transgender people.
"During his tenure, Chair Powell first ignored climate change and then resisted calls for the Fed to use its tools to fight it."
Far from making good-faith measures for general and complete disarmament, the United States is pursuing a trillion-dollar program of modernizing and "life extension" of its aging nuclear arsenal.
Republicans and a pair of Senate Democrats are "using the filibuster to destroy and undermine the life of this democracy and the daily lives of people," warned Rev. Dr. William Barber II.
Leaders of government, finance, and industry seem to have borrowed their way to another decade of economic growth—which was mostly squandered in profit-taking rather than being spent preparing for the societal challenges that the inevitable and fast-approaching termination of growth will entail.
"GOP trolls in Congress are racing to offer an internship to a murderer. Because they haven't had quite enough violence in Congress yet."
