Starting this year, progressives should assign ourselves one mission as a New Year’s Resolution: each person should find one ...

We all know Santa Claus and his elves live at the icy North Pole — but it won’t be for much longer. If the planet keeps heating ...

On December 10, we commemorate Human Rights Day: the anniversary of the day in 1948 when the nation members of the United Nations ...

Partly thanks to this Vox piece, one classic idea that’s been attracting new attention is the chestnut to relocate federal ...

In the United Kingdom, major political parties that are out of power in parliament aren’t entirely erased out of the ...

When national election results are reported to the American public, they are by default visualized in maps with each state filled in ...

There’s broad consensus among the public, as well as experts, that America’s criminal justice system is in dire need of ...

It may be a challenge to pin down President-Elect Donald Trump’s exact position and intentions on Medicare and Social Security, ...

It’s a classic American tradition to honor the valor of U.S. military service-members who risk their lives on the ...

In a blockbuster scoop, The New York Times recently reported evidence that presidential nominee Donald Trump could’ve legally ...

Runaway executive salaries aren’t limited to corporate America. Top universities and many other nonprofit institutions also ...

Elected leaders to city government would have good reason to stop giving certain banks their business: those banks are exploiting their ...

Today’s youngest will grow up experiencing a new phenomenon in human history: being alive at the same time as four to five ...

As anyone who relies on the local bus or train lines to get around can show by example, public mass transit is a necessity in modern ...

Judging by the national headlines in America today, one particularly effective way to make a killing in the corporate sector is to be a ...

Clean energy is a booming sector, with the solar industry adding new jobs 12 times faster than the national job growth rate. ...

America should be a place of second chances — an ideal that’s often harshly flouted by the workings of our criminal justice ...

The presidential candidacy of Donald Trump is fueling extremist, bigoted rhetoric against marginalized groups and emboldening ...

Here’s the most straightforward way to get young people to vote: make them. That is, we should push America’s institutions ...

As far as lucrative business practices go, one clever gimmick is an increasingly popular one: the “corporate inversion,” in ...

Yes, there is a lawyers shortage in our country — for ordinary Americans who need professional legal counsel, especially low-income ...

In response to the Orlando gay nightclub massacre, the Boston Globe published an editorial with a straightforward message: “ban ...

Anti-Muslim sentiment and bigotry are soaring to frightening levels in America, along with harassment, bullying, and death threats ...

U.S. multinational companies that simply changed their addresses on file, just to dodge taxes to Uncle Sam, are still enjoying various ...

Here’s a simple idea. Don’t just tweet or declare that “If I ever die in a mass shooting, please politicize my ...

We overuse antibiotic medicines to our peril. The problem is that as the microbes make copies of themselves, then copies of copies, ...

Modern day slavery, sex trafficking, and forced child labor aren’t just festering in the shadows in far-flung locales. These ...

By now, chances are that readers of this website have heard of the Panama Papers. So let’s get right to the point: what should be ...

For America’s elected leaders, the warnings of history loom over one of the most important decisions they can ever make: we must ...

Despite various policy and regulatory reforms to rein in excessive CEO pay, top executives continue to rake in the huge ...

Thanks to rampant tax-dodging trickery and sophistry, corporate America is enjoying huge payoffs even as it complains loudly about the ...

The rulings issued by the Supreme Court of the United States aren’t the only important decisions it makes. So are its choices ...

The robot takeover will have profound implications for the future of work and daily life—but not in the way that lay folks might guess. ...

The Apple vs. FBI drama is in the national headlines, which means so are the issues it raises around democratic governance, civil ...

Summary The global community faces a challenge: how do we lift developing nations out of poverty while avoiding the greenhouse ...

Top business leaders in the U.S. and abroad are among the voices calling for carbon pricing, whether in the form of emissions trading ...

Here’s an idea so compelling that it’s backed by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Center for Economic Policy and Research, the ...

Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death this presidential election year has jolted Supreme Court watchers, catapulting the ...

To build a vibrant progressive infrastructure lasting for years to come, we should create a groundswell of pressure on donors to move a ...

Worker coops aren’t the standard way of running a business in America. That’s a big reason why they’re catching on. ...

Spend fewer hours at work, use your paid days off, and take longer vacations — and at the same time, help put other Americans back to ...

Climate change is fact. The scientific consensus. The settled understanding of reality that should be assumed during the search for ...

Delaware is the preferred state for thousands of companies seeking a corporate charter, including those with no real connection to the ...

Quitters never prosper, right? Think again: for rank-and-file workers, quitting is a good sign that they have the financial means to ...

Whether the field is physics, biology, or neuroscience, chances are that the scientific breakthroughs making headlines today ...

The national debate on gun violence often overlooks these two intertwined factors that combine to produce daily carnage: people under ...

Cities, not Congress, are leading the charge on climate change. It’s time to accelerate the movement to double the number of ...

When powerhouse PR firm FitzGibbon Media recently imploded amid revelations of its founder & owner’s unacceptable workplace ...

Frustrated that a candidate for elected office hasn’t taken a stance on a heated issue yet? Here’s an idea offered by ...

Secrecy allows tax-dodging by super wealthy investors to fester around the world. Here’s one idea from economist Gabriel Zucman ...

If you think universal voter turnout is an impossible pipe dream in the United States, because Congress would never enact a law ...

Presidential candidates typically release their tax returns as standard practice in the modern era, but most Members of Congress ...

Despite the horrific impact of war, the U.S. Government does not systematically look at how the use of U.S. military force affects ...

Let’s demand for Google and other tech companies to integrate carbon pricing or emissions trackers into all their relevant online ...

What if we had a way to visualize in real-time the carbon dioxide emissions spewing out into our atmosphere, causing climate change? ...

To prevent global climate catastrophe, humanity needs bigger “sticks” to curb carbon pollution. But how can we enact the ...

For those seeking new ideas to curb outrageous levels of corporate CEO pay, here’s a novel rethinking of the tax code itself: ...

Let’s turn the tables on conservatives and their powerful corporate donors who love to talk about “right-to-work,” ...

Here’s how to step up the effort against corporate abuse of federal tax laws: get the states to deny their own state tax ...

Although much of the public debate on inequality focuses on national policies, there’s an impressive array of state and local ...

More than 1,400 locations across America have racist slurs, dehumanizing language, or other derogatory terms in their ...

Dear college & university students, we can do something about climate change right on our nation’s campuses, with or without ...

We already have a National Voter Registration Day in America. In the same spirit, it’s time to establish a National Vote ...

Here’s a creative way to spark more public curiosity and concern about mass surveillance and civil liberties: put up mysterious ...

Satirical campaign to build debtors prisons again (by the way, these functionally still exist) to highlight bullshit debtors laws ...

Why don’t we know the names of the oil company CEO’s?  Let’s start a campaign to make oil company leadership ...

Modeled on right wing campus diversity bake sales, but in which millionaires pay no taxes and everyone else pays extra, students with ...

Let’s shift the paradigm and encourage people to choose god-parenthood or secondary parenthood instead of becoming parents.  The ...

Fight usury by making the post office a provider of low-interest loans and check cashing.  Make use of this vital institution to put ...

Combine information from existing voter guides and lists concerning ethics and democracy reform, e.g. common cause, CREW, etc., in ...

Let’s help Obama stand strong for progressive values! Create a VETO meme to carry him through his final years as president. ...

Predicting how proteins are folded is key to creating the drugs to fight most diseases.  Foldit is an online computer game in which ...

Shift culture by identifying key metaphors underlying social problems, and use storytelling and multimedia to promote new metaphors. ...

A New York Times op-ed by former Wall Street trader Sam Polk proposes an AA for Wealth Addiction. ...

Multi-year campaign to allow for caps on interest rates, combination national and state “chipping away” approach. Submitted ...

Create a network of people who organize local MLK day school programs, rallies, etc. – there must be thousands of them! But no ...

Pretty straight-forward: Make Medicare and Medicaid a buy-in option on the health care exchanges – to correspond with levels in ...

A simple Wikipedia-like platform that maps and documents the movement ecosystem online – by state, issue, etc. and allows us to ...

2020. 2042. 2050. Lots of people and groups are starting to create future visions, scenarios, strategies. Is it possible we could ...

The next Sandy. The next Wisconsin. The next BP. The next Occupy. The next Moral Mondays. There should be a team of people and groups ...

A rich whistleblower should create a fund to reward broke whistleblowers and support them through the challenges of whistle-blowing. ...

What are all the things Obama and agencies can do with the executive branch? And what are all the bad things they should NOT do? A ...

When orgs die, there should be a place to transition the best pieces (assets, intellectual property, models, lists, donors, ...

Crowd-source reviews of and rewards to corporations for ethical actions.  Like YELP for corporate malfeasance and good behavior. ...

“Canvassing can be one of the most effective forms of civic outreach, but it’s also one of the most resource-intensive. As ...

Use mini-grants to promote progressive values, the same way the Awesome Foundation promotes Awesome. Submitted by: Multiple submitters ...

Skilled but undermployed? Contribute your knowledge, time and elbow grease into a timebank for the Millennial generation as hours to ...

Petitions and emails to targets are, by themselves, very low-impact. Their benefit is recruiting new activists and creating a media ...

National network of scholars (profs, grad students, undergrads) who do research to support community organizations and social ...

Pick 1-2 races and do intensive organizing to get people to pledge to vote for the candidate who spends the least. Disruptive and crazy ...

Help people understand the history and best practices for changing their community by crowd-sourcing a syllabus of key readings and ...

The VAN (Voter Activation Network) has inadequate systems for students on campus and dorms. Advocate with VAN to fix them in advance of ...

DC Math teachers with calculators and butcher paper confront lying members of Congress on their horrible arithmetic — great ...

Organize Midwestern Ice Fishers in states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, New Hampshire, Maine and New York who are ...

We often forget at which level of government decisions are made which affect our lives. Imagine getting a notice about changes in SNAP ...