by Robert Kraig | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog
Hundreds of Wisconsin and Illinois activists will brave snowstorms Tuesday to converge on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office in Racine, Wisconsin, to challenge the GOP's bid to take health care away from millions of Americans. The two groups leading the event, Fair...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog
During the campaign Donald Trump pledged that "on day one" as president, he would label China a currency manipulator. Then he didn't. Then China granted Trump's businesses lucrative trademarks he has been seeking. Coincidence? "On Day One" On the campaign trail, Trump...
by Miles Mogulescu | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog
How mean-spirited are Republican plans to repeal The Affordable Care Act? Among other things, they will make states choose between kicking millions of old people out of nursing homes or kicking millions of poor and near-poor people off Medicaid health insurance. This...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog
The American Health Care Act is a rich person's bonanza. Under the plan proposed by House Republicans, each of the nation’s 400 richest families will save $7 million per year, as part of a tax giveaway. The plan offers no benefits at all to those who earn $200,000 or...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog
Few entities have been more discombobulated by our madcap president than the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, which former Obama foreign-policy adviser Ben Rhodes once dubbed “the blob.” Donald Trump assaulted the blob with his “America First” posture and his...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog
In its waning hours, the Obama administration gave conservatives poised to take the reins in Washington, DC a huge gift when it issued a highly negative report on the results of its efforts to rescue the 5,000 lowest performing public schools across the nation. "Obama...