(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The Two Numbers Trump Can't Spin There are two numbers Trump can't explain away: total deaths and job loss. Death and unemployment should mark the end of the Trump administration as well as Republican control of the Senate.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Why Union Workers and Environmentalists Need to Work Together with Smart Protests It's hard to make the case that we're winning much of anything right now. Congress and the White House are now ruled by anti-labor, climate change deniers. We have an environmental lunatic as president. Perhaps it's time to review our organizing strategies.

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 5, 2017
Wanted: A Massive Education, Organizing Drive and Progressive Vision to Vanquish Trump As Trump stumbles, and maybe crumbles, progressives are confronting a painful truth: Trump is a reflection of a much bigger problem "- the rise of runaway inequality and the failure of the liberal establishment to address it.

(78 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 20, 2017
Why Bernie Is the Most Popular Politician in America To keep the Sanders agenda alive, we should further refine it, turn it into a petition, get 25 million people to sign it and shove it under the noses of every politician in the country. Hard? Yes, but not impossible. We need a common movement that goes beyond our issue silos, interest groups and identities.

(8 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 28, 2016
Why Bernie's Strong Poll Numbers Against Trump Are For Real Poll after poll shows Bernie doing better, much better, against Trump than Hillary.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 16, 2016
Does the Hillary, Bernie Battle Matter That Much? Hillary cannot reform the basic approach of neoliberalism by working from within. Bernie, however, wants to reverse each component of the model. He wants to 1) increase taxes on the wealthy; 2) re-regulate powerful financial and corporate institutions, and; 3) expand the public sector and the social safety net. But none of this stands a chance of success unless Bernie supporters keep at it after the election, win or lose.

(32 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 18, 2016
Think Again Hillary Democrats: 10 Reasons Why She Could Lose this Fall The media tells us that Hillary has a lock on the nomination. That news should make her supporters extremely nervous, and not because the prognosticators have been wrong so many times already. All Democrats should worry because her major policy and character flaws could leave us with a Republican president this fall. Here's why.

SHARE        Monday, November 9, 2015
Runaway Inequality: The facts that Drive the Sanders Insurgency This is the Introduction from the new book, "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice" by Les Leopold. It shows how the many problems we face are linked together by runaway inequality and the financialization of the economy. It also provides a range of policy and organizing solutions