Category Archives: Center for Populist Politics
Policy Watch: Protect and Serve?
Congress has taken its Memorial Day recess, but there is still legislation in Congress that [...]
Thomas Frank on Populism
“Populism is America’s way of expressing class antagonism. It is a tradition of rhetorical protest [...]
Why Do We Continue To Ignore Solutions To Planetary Crises?
Talking past each other as the planet gets more and more uninhabitable will likely not [...]
Mueller Investigation Shows We All Want Another Watergate
I have for the better part of a year followed the story of Robert Mueller’s [...]
We Need a Job Guarantee
Senator Bernie Sanders wants a bold new federal jobs program, and he's right.
Amazon Must be Destroyed
Recently Brian Olsavsky, Chief Financial Officer at Amazon, stated that effective May 11, new Amazon [...]
Policy Watch: April 2018
This week we bring you another Policy Watch, an informational series where we aim to [...]
James Howard Kunstler Talks Current Events From Comey to Syria to Zuckerberg
I had the pleasure to sit down with James Howard Kunstler, author of such notable [...]
Fracking Protests Hit Pennsylvania Capital
On Friday, April 13, more than one hundred protesters from across the state, even some [...]
Are Teacher Strikes a Growing Trend?
America is in a new “gilded age”, only without the mass child labor. We are [...]
Fighting climate change isn’t just right, it’s necessity.
In a recent court case in Boston, more than a dozen protesters were found “not [...]
Policy Watch: Gun Debate Rages in Congress
It is once more time for a new edition of Policy Watch, where we bring [...]
This Philadelphia Judge Has a Plan to Help, Not Hurt, Prisoners
Our country is in dire need of criminal justice reform. Crucial failings in our prison [...]
Policy Watch: Veterans in Need
We’re back once more for another edition of policy watch: Capitol Hill has been slow [...]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to DC: California Democrats Shake Things Up
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; [...]
The Scars of Lancaster County
For over three years the citizens of Lancaster County have been fighting the construction of [...]
Trump’s New Budget Would Gut American Institutions
President Trump’s new budget proposal, released February 12, includes measures to end federal funding for [...]
Cape Town is running out of water – but there may be more
In the throes of a devastating drought, a city the size of Los Angeles is [...]
California Dystopia: No Man’s Farmland
Those of us who live in California and oppose illegal immigration are often met with [...]
Policy Watch, February 2018
This is the beginning of an ongoing series we’d like to do called Policy Watch, [...]
In Political Dynasty, a Kennedy and a Trump are the Same
This morning, I read a story on how all eyes are on Representative Joe Kennedy [...]
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Congressional Map Unconstitutional
Late afternoon on Monday, January 22nd, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court released a ruling on a [...]
Ancient Origins of Socialism and the Progressive Movement
Progressives have always moved society forward, for better or worse. It has always been the [...]
Putting a Trillion Into Perspective
The is our take on Charles Hugh Smith’s (oftwominds.com) perpective on how to visualize the [...]
Should We Question Fair Trade?
The other day my wife and I had the morning off together – a rare [...]
Will Bitcoin Boom Spell Environmental Gloom?
For the longest time, Bitcoin, the Internet’s largest cryptocurrency, slowly puttered along as essentially a [...]
Washington is The New Versailles
In the dead of night, democracy died with a whimper. Withered husks of humanity, driven [...]
Pipeline Spills Justify Protester Outrage
On November 16, TransCanada, the owners of the Keystone Pipeline, reported that a portion of [...]
SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
This poem was written by W.H. Auden in 1939, a little over 77 years ago. [...]
Homage to the 23 Arrested Fighting Fracking
On May 16, 2017, twenty-three brave souls refused to leave the right of way forced [...]