Though it is finally a federal holiday, a lot of people still dont really know about Juneteenth. It was the day in 1865 when formerly enslaved people learned of the Emancipation Proclamation. But wha

Across the United States there is tremendous support for a taxing the wealthiest among us. So why doesnt it happen? Well, in Massachusetts, it has. As Inequality.orgs Sam Pizzigati explains in this

In his new book The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America, prolific author Larry Tye shares what he learned about the lives of the three men, now recognized

Used to be Labour was left, Tories were conservative. Now it seems each party is trying to be just like the other. This right before PM Rishi Sunak shocked everyone by scheduling a new election for Ju

The final chapter in our guests new book, Liberalism as a Way of Life asks the question: Requiem for a Liberal Way of Life? Well, is it really over? Reached in Sydney Australia where hes professor o

They wanted to stop abortions, instead there were more after the Dobbs decision than before. One the first segment, Mother Jones magazine writer Julianne McShane tells how women are maintaining their

Imagine a Supreme Court whose only agenda was equal justice under law. It was real. Unlike todays court, which is openly an arm of the MAGA movement, when that court ended legal segregation 70 year

America is an outlier: here its commonly accepted that if you succeed or fail you deserve it. We believe we make our own luck. And we blame ourselves for whats really random bad luck. But thats cou

CEOs cry that shorter work weeks will bankrupt their companies. The reality is a 4 day work week around the world has already brought results that are off the charts. A shorter work week means more

The environmental movement is often derided as elitist. But as our guest Liza Featherstone of the New Republic and Jacobin magazines tells it, by planting wild miniforests theres no such polarization