Cliquez ici pour lire la version française de cet article. We’re excited to announce that Michael Aubry has joined the Action Network team to provide dedicated support to Canadian partners. With more than a decade of experience in Canada’s labour movement, most recently with the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Michael has extensive knowledge of the tools and strategies behind effective campaigns.…Read More

Click here to read this post in English. C’est avec grand plaisir que nous accueillons Michael Aubry dans l’équipe d’Action Network à titre de conseiller spécial. Sa mission : répondre aux besoins de nos partenaires d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Michael compte plus de dix ans d’expérience dans le milieu syndical, notamment à l’Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada,…Read More

State capacity is in vogue. For decades, scholars theorized and debated the concept in academic obscurity; now, talk of state capacity saturates popular policy and political discourse. And whereas the scholarship focused on states’ ability to pursue official goals autonomously from powerful social groups, today’s purported state capacity liberals in the popular press—including Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, and Matthew Yglesias—diagnose…Read More

Dr. Robert Greene II, who teaches history at Claflin and is the lead instructor for Modjeska Simkins School, awards Bernadette Hampton her certificate at last year’s graduation ceremony in Columbia. The Modjeska Simkins School, now in its 11th year of … Continue reading → Source linkRead More

New York Rep. Mike Lawler wrote a New York Times op-ed this week urging leaders in both parties to tone down their rhetoric and ease political divisions. This came mere months after Lawler donated to a candidate accused of inciting a riot. Campaign finance disclosures show that Lawler’s campaign gave $1,000 to Erin Crowley in October 2025. At the time,…Read More

JOIN OUR LIST Every week, People’s Action shares actions you can take online and with our member group After the killings of Alex Pretti by border patrol and Renee Good by ICE agents, it’s clear that these masked, violent, and untrained agents must be removed from our communities.We demand that: * ICE and border patrol agents be removed from Minnesota and…Read More

For all the talk one hears about political polarization shoving everyone into opposite camps, our pundit class is still disproportionately infected with the scourge of political centrism. And predictably, in the wake of the Renee Good and Alex Pretti shootings, a new conventional wisdom has crept into the discourse: the right has reacted to their deaths with shocking sadism and…Read More

After invading Venezuela to oust its leader and begin “running” the country, the Trump administration set its sights on Greenland. On January 21, after threatening to use military force to annex the island, President Donald Trump announced a “framework of a future deal” over Greenland. Trump continues to claim that the U.S. will have “total access” to Greenland, while European…Read More

This week, a leading German soccer official, Oke Göttlich, said that the time has come to consider the unthinkable: a boycott of the World Cup to protest Donald J. Trump’s United States. Source linkRead More

We at Democracy have tracked recent arguments around wealth taxes, but felt there’s an almost philosophical question underlying these scholarly questions. Is the goal of optimal tax policy to create revenue, to create a fair distribution of wealth across society, to enhance economic growth? And does this debate go beyond economics and funding government and into the health of our democracy…Read More