Democracy • Economy • Human Rights • Resistance
The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work?
Adam Harris
The Guardian
Barber, the co-chair of the revived Poor People’s campaign, a national movement to challenge inequality in all its forms through moral protest and policy change, has spent years preparing people for moments like this.
Published On: 07/05/2025
Economy • Human Rights • Resistance
Working folks build food solutions, while Congress slashes SNAP
Gwen Frisbie-Fulton
The Gander
Instead of trying to fix this broken system, Congress is punishing the victims of its malfunctioning and is slashing SNAP to enact tax cuts for the rich.
Published On: 06/16/2025
Economy • Global • Technology
Why Climate Action is Unstoppable
Al Gore
Ted Talks
In this urgent and hard-hitting talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore thoroughly dismantles the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of "climate realism," contrasting their misleading claims with the remarkable advancements in renewable energy.
Published On: 06/04/2025
Economy • Technology
The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game
J. Dylan Sandifer
The New Republic
Musk loves to sneer at working-class people who rely on food stamps or unemployment benefits, claiming they’re lazy or entitled. But what’s more entitled than using regulatory credits to boost your company’s stock price and then leveraging that stock for loans to keep your cash flow steady?
Published On: 03/21/2025
Economy • Technology
The Wide Angle: Elon Musk and the American Endgame
Dave Troy
The Washington Spectator
...Congress is baffled as to why Musk is doing all of this, and what he possibly wants from access to sensitive data including US Treasury records on social security numbers, bank routing and account numbers, healthcare data, and Department of Energy information on nuclear weapons. He has given free rein to a group of 20-ish boys — tech enthusiasts with no training or relevant experience — so they can “improve” things and harvest information.
Published On: 02/12/2025
Democracy • Economy
Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse
Dave Troy
The Washington Spectator
In May, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 8421, the “Federal Reserve Abolition Act” which aims to “abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve banks” and repeals the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the law that created the Federal Reserve System. ...This bill, as designed, would end the current dollar system and introduce a new financial system rooted in a gold-backed dollar and cryptocurrencies.
Published On: 07/30/2024