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Dean Baker for Truthout: Progressives should be pushing clear pro-worker policies, even if we may not like some of the people who would benefit.
The US policy of sanctions and saber rattling haven't worked on North Korea. It's time to try diplomacy.
Protesters demonstrate against Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, at the San Francisco Federal Building, June 2, 2017. (Photo: Jim Wilson / The New York Times)
In the wake of the US's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreements, we are faced with this important question: will climate catastrophes turn us toward one another with love and cooperation or against one another with fear and violence? An ethic of cooperation and love at the local level can be our strongest repudiation of Trumpism.
Once a model for affordable and accessible higher education emulated by other states and nations, California's three-tiered higher education system is now in peril because of a 30-year war on public education by neoliberal forces. It's time we expanded the student-led grassroots movement's ties with other resistance networks.
Having already banned nosy reporters from news corporations that he doesn't like, branded their employers as enemies of the nation and expressed a wish to departed FBI Director James Comey that those in the White House who leak his secrets should be jailed, why should there be any doubt that Trump would, if he could, clap behind bars reporters whom, in his own cockeyed vision, he saw as hostile?