President Trump has jeopardized the lives of 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who came here seeking better opportunities. There’s not much more to be said than that—except that it’s al...
https://capitalandmain.com/corporations-profit-from-killing-daca-0913
Water is a fundamental human right. The only way to make sure it’s accessible to everyone, no matter how much money they have or the color of their skin, is to keep it under public control and ...
https://capitalandmain.com/locals-fight-to-keep-public-utilities-public-0714
Oklahoma is definitely Red America. The Koch brothers' political network has for years spent large sums supporting state legislative candidates. And it paid off in 2010 when the GOP gained contro...
https://capitalandmain.com/the-belt-buckle-of-the-bible-belt-0704
By cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for mental health care and substance abuse treatment, President Trump's budget would send more people to jail who don’t belong ther...
https://capitalandmain.com/trump-budget-would-mean-jail-for-many-requiring-mental-health-care-0619
Does anyone really want a handful of corporations, the likes of McDonald’s and Burger King, teaching children and locking people up in prison? The post Fast-Food Charter School Education: Hol...
https://capitalandmain.com/fast-food-charter-school-education-hold-the-learning-0424
Like many Southern cities, Clinton, Mississippi, bears the scars of American slavery. A road cutting through the city’s center marks a key route used by slave traders in the decades before the ...
https://capitalandmain.com/mississippi-learning-moving-beyond-betsy-devos-school-choice-trap-0327
Trumpcare would not only strip coverage from millions of poor and working people, but it would also give billions of dollars in tax cuts to health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, investors an...
https://capitalandmain.com/trumps-unaffordable-care-act-0320
For-profit water corporations see America’s crumbling infrastructure as a business opportunity. Either they buy struggling water systems or market their services to cities like Pittsburgh that ...
https://capitalandmain.com/how-a-private-water-company-brought-lead-to-pittsburghs-taps
Earlier this month, the Seattle City Council voted not to renew its contract with Wells Fargo, pulling more than $3 billion in city funds from the Wall Street giant. And rightly so—Wells Fargo ...
https://capitalandmain.com/wall-street-banks-on-deportations-0227
President Trump already has some congressional Republicans worried about his ability to stay on message. But the president’s federal government hiring freeze sends an age-old conservative messa...
https://capitalandmain.com/trumps-hiring-freeze-disrespects-american-taxpayers-0206