The Koch-funded Mercatus Center is calling for the deregulation of public education. The right-wing Heritage Foundation’s “National Coronavirus Recovery Commission,” which includes an executive with the for-profit [...]

Conservatives have long been clear about what they want. Progressives have focused on specific issues and campaigns and remained silent on the ideas that unite us.

Here’s our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back. Not a subscriber? Sign up here.   Online learning shouldn’t be [...]

Protecting the public health of all us requires protecting the health of each of us, without exception. 

Go figure. When African American men don’t experience delays in diagnosis or treatment, they survive just as often as white men.

Tons of positive ink has been spilled about Kansas City, Missouri’s decision last month to make public transit fare-free, and rightly so.

Thousands have been shuttered since the turn of the century. More than 35 percent of those given federal grant money between 2006 and 2014 either never opened or were shut down, costing taxpayers more than half a billion [...]

What you should say when someone starts dissing traditional, neighborhood public schools and hyping up charter schools.

Our pick of recent news about the effort to privatize public education in California and the families, students, and teachers fighting back.

The nation’s capital recently announced it plans to fully privatize its Medicaid program—which is chilling news. Yes, most of D.C.’s Medicaid recipients already have their health care managed by private insurance [...]