This is a more important time than ever to reaffirm our bravest and highest values. Jubilee – the ancient concept of debt forgiveness as an affirmation of community – reflects those values.

Trump's budget doesn't make us secure. It slashes and burns protections to our environment, labor and education. Americans sickened by pollution are weak. Workers threatened by explosions on the job are less safe, not more.

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch shows every sign he supports the Federalist Society's pro-corporate, far-right agenda. Democratic senators must filibuster his nomination, or face primary challenges in their home states.

Nobody’s suggesting Democrats should behave like Republicans. But it’s no longer “moderate” to pretend the rules haven’t changed. In today’s world, a vote for Gorsuch is a vote for extremism over moderation.

If you don’t pay me $230 million, the new CEO at railroad giant CSX warns, I’ll walk away, and let your workers keep their jobs. He means it. At his previous CEO stop, Hunter Harrison cut another railroad's workforce by 34 percent.

President Trump’s deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency terrify me. They will gut the agency, removing protections for American families and our children.

Silicon Valley rallied against President Trump's immigration policies on "Pi Day." Maybe the Valley will start to live up to its promises to "make the world a better place."

A draft law before the House undercuts the reliable and affordable health care small business owners and employees have enjoyed since the passage of the Affordable Care Act ten years ago.

Trump's "America First" budget brings significant harm to the First Americans. It may force cuts of as much as 18 percent to the Indian Health Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other programs that are vital to our life.

Donald Trump's budget blueprint aims to dazzle, but its hardness of heart is unworthy of the American people. Our country's great leaders of the past would hardly recognize it as American at all.

Race-baiting propagandists in the White House, and a rising swamp of corporate influence. This is not "normal." But it's happening so fast, we may be desensitized to what "normal" should mean.

DeVos has called public schools a “dead end,” but now as Secretary of Education, she’s all for them. Or so she says. But it's likely what DeVos means by "public schools" is different from what you and I think.

President Trump came to Nashville to peddle the Republicans’ disastrous plan to cut health care for millions of Americans. Tennesseans responded to this con with a resounding, "No!"

Hundreds converged on the Racine offices of Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan Tuesday to deliver this simple message about his proposed cuts to healthcare : "Kill your bill, before it kills us!"

Civil rights legend and federal judge Robert L. Carter's fearless challenges to white supremacy and defense of free speech show us how we can overcome Trump's assaults on civil liberties today.

After an election filled with racist rhetoric, Republicans have proposed an agenda that will harm many black, brown, and poor Americans while helping the white and wealthy. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan pioneered this divisive strategy.

President Trump's plan to privatize infrastructure means We the People won't own our roads, dams and bridges, a few rich people will. We'll then have to pay if we want to use them.

Set your sights higher than primary challenges. Together, we can forge a new American majority and achieve progressive change far greater than we could have imagined just a few years ago.

Hundreds of Wisconsin and Illinois activists will brave snowstorms Tuesday to converge on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office in Racine, Wisconsin, to challenge the GOP's bid to take health care away from millions of Americans.

During the campaign Donald Trump pledged that "on day one" as president, he would label China a currency manipulator. Then he didn't. Then China granted Trump's businesses lucrative trademarks he has been seeking. Coincidence?

Medicaid block grants proposed by Republicans will force states to either kick old folks out of nursing homes, or kick poor folks off health insurance. Is this really what Trump voters were hoping for?

The Republicans' plan to overhaul health care cuts programs that help black and brown people to pay for giveaways to the wealthy. People ask if this is accidental or deliberate. Does it matter?

Trump’s first weeks in office have been horrifyingly erratic. But the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment's conventional wisdom is, in many ways, even more disconnected from reality than the president’s tweets.

Both sides in the current education debate assume real progress can't come from schools themselves, but must be imposed by outside folks who aren't professional educators. What if that assumption is wrong?

Jobs may have increased in February, but our challenge as a nation is to create good jobs that provide dignity for all. Senator Sherrod Brown's insightful new report - Working Too Hard for Too Little - shows us how to get there.

Who could be against rules that protect workers from civil rights and labor law violations, having their pay stolen and their health and safety put at risk? Republicans, that's who.

The Republicans' plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is a disaster for the American people. It’s not a health plan, it's a wealth grab for those who need it least, which will make the economy sicker, too.

The WTO treats the United States like a punching bag that must suffer economic blows from trade-cheating by nations worldwide. Trumping the WTO to protect American jobs and industries is the right thing to do.

The new administration paints foreign aid as a devastating drain on America’s treasure, that could be better spent at home. But generosity isn’t killing the American dream; inequality is.

Sinclair Lewis was right to sound this alarm. We have endured 40 years of creeping authoritarianism, and it now appears that it may run right over democracy. We must resist, and act in solidarity.

Advocates of free trade often say the practice increases exports, which 'creates jobs' and generates cash to reinvest in the economy. What they don't say is imports also rise, which destroys jobs and wealth.

President Trump's poisoned-tip tweets distract us with slander while he and Republicans enact the most regressive measures of policy and taxation since the 1920s.

Trump promised to "drain the swamp" of lobbyist influence from government. But the opposite is happening: he's already granted most of the special favors requested by the Business Roundtable, a $6 trillion corporate lobby.

Citizens have refused to take no - or no-shows - as answers when elected officials sidestep questions at town hall meetings about Republicans' plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

While we wonder if the teleprompter can keep Trump from biting off the head of a bat, the right wing's corporate and anti-worker agenda unfolds around us.

A new report shows Trump's push to make public schools compete for funding is driven by ideology rather than evidence that school choice actually improves the lives of children.

Recusal is not enough. Jeff Sessions has shown by his deceptions that he is not fit to serve as Attorney General. In the name of equal justice for all, he must resign.