by Dave Johnson | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog
President Trump has nominated Makan Delrahim to head up the Justice Department’s antitrust division. Most recently, the lawyer lobbied for approval of health insurance giant Anthem's effort to acquire health insurance giant Cigna. Bad sign. Scarcely seventy days into...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, has been remarkably effective at reining in lawless banks. How effective? So much so, that Republicans now target the agency for destruction. And some Democrats may be willing...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 2, 2017 | Blog
Students with disabilities already face a difficult path through our nation's education system, but President Donald Trump appears determined to add to the disadvantages these students already face. His nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court is yet...
by Miles Mogulescu | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
The number one priority for the resistance movement this coming week must be to use every tactic in the playbook - phone calls, emails, letters, petitions, mass demonstrations at senators' homes and offices, and more - to make clear that every Democrat who votes to...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
Say anything - literally anything - to sway working-class voters. Get elected, then loot the country. Hey, it worked for this guy. If there was a singular issue Trump campaigned on, it was trade. Everywhere he went, Trump swore the North American Free Trade Agreement...
by Liz Ryan Murray | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
A great old Calvin & Hobbes comic strip tells us a lot about the current budget debate. Calvin asks his mom to let him do a succession of ridiculously dangerous things: First he asks if he can set his mattress on fire; his mom says no. Then he asks if he can ride...
