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Elmo Fired? Why is Trump so hell bent on defunding PBS? It's part of a larger plan - one where he can control not just what we do, but what we think.

The importance of progressive populism

It’s the only way to hold the Trump regime accountable. Call your senators now. Why should any member of Congress vote to give Trump and Musk a trillion dollars and then let them decide how to spend it — or not spend it?

The forces of Trumpian repression and neofascism would like nothing better than for us to give up. Then they’d win it all. But we cannot allow them to. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting.

It didn’t need to. It shouldn’t have. But there’s a big reason why it thought it must.

The lesson of this election is that Democrats must attack inequality – and not cede working-class voters to Trump

At a time when the truth is a precious common good, RFK Junior has been spreading dangerous lies

America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter-century. Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us.

Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.

Where employees are a corporation’s key assets, workers’ greater power comes in threatening to walk out the door