Progressive Leads Queens DA Race, Shocking the Establishment
31-year-old Public Defender Tiffany Caban ran an AOC-style grassroots campaign calling for an end to mass incarceration and radical reform to the prosecutor’s office
The community says they have been treated like second class citizens compared to residents of wealthier neighborhoods
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The day before the first Democratic debate in Miami, dozens gathered at the DNC to demand a climate debate. They say they plan to stay…
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Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has sent the military into the streets to repress protests. At least 3 have been killed recently. Professor Adrienne Pine…
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Baris Karaagac discusses Ekrem Imamoglu’s victory in Istanbul’s mayoral election. President Erdogan had forced new elections after his party lost in March and now the…
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Oregon’s Republican state Senators have gone into hiding to avoid voting on a groundbreaking climate bill. But the Senate’s top Democrat says his party can’t muster up the support to pass it, anyway.
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Adrien Salazar, who fought for the bill discusses how this bill, which calls for no fossil fuel energy by 2050, will affect poor communities hardest…
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Real Talk Tho: The Bay Area Reduced Murders, Can Baltimore?
The San Francisco Bay Area is fighting gun violence and winning. Why did gun deaths drop in the Bay Area, and are there lessons for Baltimore? Tougher gun laws, criminal justice reform, and well-funded violence reduction programs are being credited with a significant drop in shootings in the Bay Area. Could it work in Baltimore?…
A German Village Fights for Survival Against Coal Mining
Germany wants to phase out climate-damaging coal power by 2038. But before that, five villages in North Rhine-Westphalia are slated for demolition so that the lignite in the ground beneath them can be mined. Villagers are to be reimbursed and resettled, but now that Germany wants to phase out coal power, many want to fight…
Economic Update: Rise and Fall of the USSR
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff goes beyond the simplistic, sterile Cold War debates of demonizers vs celebrants of the USSR as he delivers an in depth analysis of the USSR’s strengths, weaknesses, successes and failures from its revolutionary beginnings in 1917 to its implosion in 1989. The first episode of a special 2-part…
How a Baltimore Billionaire Won a Tax Cut Trump Said Would Help the Poor
ProPublica’s Jeff Ernsthausen explains how a poorly-designed map boosted billionaire Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank’s development company
Where Do the Politics of Reparations Go From Here?
This week, the first congressional hearing on reparations in nearly 12 years was held on Capitol Hill. As the discussion on reparations matures, what needs to happen politically for the effort to move forward?
Oregon’s Cap and Trade Bill is Dead
June 26, 2019
As Trump Nixes California High Speed Rail Money, San Diego Considers Mass Transit Plan
June 19, 2019
Overall and Core CPI Up 0.1 Percent in May; Overall Index Up 1.8 Percent Over Last Year
June 12, 2019
Driving Financialization
June 11, 2019
California Senate Shelves Bill Tying Affordable Housing to Climate Crisis, Public Transit
June 7, 2019
Loyal to their Class, Unhinged from Democracy
June 6, 2019
Victorious Grassroots Caucus Faces Challenge From Longtime Incumbent in Teachers Union Election
May 30, 2019
Baltimore Cop Charged with Perjury, Misconduct
May 29, 2019
Oppose Doug Ford’s Ontario Schools Budget
May 29, 2019
The (Small-d) Democrat’s Dilemma
May 24, 2019
Springtime for Biden and Democrats
May 17, 2019
The US Labor Market Is Deteriorating for Black Men
May 16, 2019
History Repeats Itself as Corporations Join Big Green to Craft Market-Based Climate Plan
May 15, 2019
Climate Emergency Manifesto
May 14, 2019
Privatization Solution Worse than Problem
May 14, 2019
Why Ecuador?
May 9, 2019
Fallujah Forgotten
May 6, 2019
An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion
May 6, 2019
Can House Special Committees Fight the Climate Crisis?
April 29, 2019
The Baltimore Uprising: Four Years Later
April 19, 2019
Assange Arrest Sparks Interest in Gore Vidal Book
April 12, 2019
David Bernhardt Confirmed as Interior Secretary
April 11, 2019
Defence of European Empires was Original NATO Goal
April 3, 2019
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TRNN Documentary: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
Narrated by Danny Glover, A documentary special reveals how climate change science has been under systematic attack; the multi-million dollar campaign allowed a climate change denier to be elected president (a new version with updated content and music)
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Is the Oil Industry Canada’s ‘Deep State’?
Justin Trudeau and Canada’s political elite are fighting for the Tar Sands and oil industry’s interests, even if it means that Canada misses its climate targets. We speak to Kevin Taft, ex-Liberal Party politician and author of ‘Oil’s Deep State.’
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