The US should copy Argentina and pass a new tax on the wealthy to help deal with the COVID crisis
RONALDO SCHEMIDT / Getty Images The US suffers from drastic wealth inequality. One popular solution is a wealth tax on the country's richest citizens, much like Argentina has done. Their one-time 2% tax on the...
It's time for other states to follow California's lead and protect workers' ability to be independent
Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press California succeeded in rolling back restrictions on independent contractors with the passing of Prop 22. Americans have long relied on freelance work, and deserve to have the...
More than 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, Black Americans still face discrimination in banking. But pro sports teams can help change that.
A general view of the court honoring Martin Luther King Day is seen prior to an NBA basketball between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Atlanta Hawks on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, in Atlanta. Todd Kirkland/AP...
I was in DC for the inauguration. The overwhelming security state felt disturbingly similar to the worst parts of the post-9/11 response.
The National Guard is ramping up its presence in Washington, DC, ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration following the Capitol siege on January 6. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Being in DC for the...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib on why she's rallying progressives to fight back against calls for sweeping new government surveillance powers after the Capitol attack
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., October 18, 2020 REUTERS/Rebecca Cook Rep. Rashida Tlaib is leading the progressive opposition to a massive expansion of the security state in the wake of...
Parents can't afford WiFi for their children to attend online classes. Governments should pay for free mobile data during the pandemic.
Volunteer Elyse Stelford helps a 1st grader learn math at a learning pod for homeless children, located in the carport at the Hyland Motel in Los Angeles, California. Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty...
Republican governors are still failing their constituents almost a year into the pandemic
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy announces the state of Alaska has its first positive case of the new coronavirus, during a news conference Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska. AP Photo/Mark Thiessen Forgoing...
The vaccine rollout needs a massive course correction. The federal government needs to take the lead.
Hundreds wait in line in Florida to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on December 30, 2020. Andrew West/The News-Press/USA Today Network via Reuters A mass vaccination campaign is never easy, but questionable...
Biden's unrivaled ability to work with Senate Republicans like Mitch McConnell will define his presidency
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell looks on as US President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address at the US Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images Democrats now have control of...
Biden's inauguration was a Frederick Douglass dream made real. We should be proud.
Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden. Tasos Katopodis via Getty Former slave Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest American intellectuals to ever live, and he dreamed that his country would live...
I'm a lawyer who sued Alex Jones on behalf of the Sandy Hook families, leading to his deplatforming. The social media ban of Trump is troubling.
President Trump is seen at the White House on November 26, 2020. Erin Schaff - Pool/Getty Images Trump's ban from social media has troubling parallels with Alex Jones' ban in 2018. Public vulnerability to...
Biden's inauguration will be held in a sad, military-occupied DC. Never forget how Trump got us here.
A fortified Secret Service checkpoint a block from the White House the day before Joe Biden's inauguration on January 19, 2021. Anthony L. Fisher Washington, DC, the day before Biden's inaugurated is a sad, eerie,...
If tech companies don't want to deal in violence, they should stop partnering with US military and intelligence
A U.S. Air Force pilot (L), and a censor operator (R), prepare to launch a MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), from a ground control station at a secret air base in the Persian Gulf region on January 7,...
Republicans and conservatives are whining about being 'silenced,' but these complaints are completely detached from reality
An image on a monitor shows US President Donald Trump speaking during in a video posted on the White House Twitter feed, in the empty Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 13, 2021 Jabin...
The stock market's green energy bubble will burst eventually, but it could help save the planet along the way
Ten-year-old Alize Roig blows bubbles as part of an art school graduate student's project Eric Thayer/Reuters There's a bubble forming in green energy stocks. While the bubble may eventually burst and hurt some...