It’s early Sunday morning. Our clocks “spring forward” an hour even as the position of the Earth relative to the sun barely changed. Thanks for nothing, Daylight Savings Time. Like millions of Americans, I wake up groggy. That grogginess (and grumpiness) spills into Monday and the rest of the week as our internal clocks have…
While GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia faced widespread criticism even before entering Congress this year for supporting conspiracy theories and expressing racist views, in light of reporting this week that she showed support on Facebook for executing prominent Democrats, two House freshmen are demanding her resignation. Reps. Nikema Williams (D-Ga.) and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) announced Friday that…
The newly-elected Democratic majority in the Senate is currently debating whether to keep or nix the filibuster. There are strong policy, political, and Constitutional arguments for eliminating the filibuster – and there is little reason to preserve it. The policy case for eliminating the filibuster Small states are already overrepresented in the United States Senate…
Black Lives Matter South Bend released a statement on Thursday condemning Trump supporters’ siege of the Capitol Building in Washington DC. On a day when Congress convened to formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the November 2020 presidential election, the heart of American democracy descended into chaos as Trump supporters heeded the call of their…
Editor’s Note: Ahead of a Tuesday hearing in the U.S. House Committee on Rules regarding Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s bill to establish a single-payer Medicare for All health care system in the United States, dying healthcare activist Ady Barkan released the following prepared remarks. Owing to the advanced progression of his ALS, Barkan will deliver this testimony using a…
The United States is a nation where presidential overreaches, outright abuses of power, and largely successful attempts to undermine our constitution’s system of checks and balances stretches back over generations – and, in fact, one can find examples dating to the earliest days of our democratic republic. Whether or not these scandals amounted to “high…
Nearly a half million workers in the United States will see a pay increase in April. Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, announced today that it was raising the base pay of its current and future employees to $9 an hour, a full $1.75 above the current national minimum wage. According to the company: Approximately 500,000…
Just weeks after taking over both houses of Congress, Republicans are aggressively moving to weaken regulations aimed at reining in big banks and protecting the public. According to the New York Times, Wall Street is holding the strings. “The financial industry has been methodical, drafting technically complicated legislation that can pass the heavily Republican House…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will soon vote on a new set of net neutrality rules. The vote is likely to come at the FCC’s monthly meeting in February, which is scheduled to occur on February 26. The Washington Post’s Brian Fung reports: President Obama’s top telecom regulator, Tom Wheeler, told fellow FCC commissioners before…
President Obama signaled on Wednesday that he will stick to his word when he said earlier this year that he would address immigration through executive action. The president maintains that he would prefer a legislative option but that he has promised the American people that he will sign an executive order to address the issue…
