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What Teacher Strikes Can Teach Democrats About Education Politics
The momentum of this spring's teacher uprising is growing, as Oklahoma teachers extend their walkout into a second week and teachers in Kentucky and Arizona are increasingly eager for some kind of disruptive action. It's too early to gage the full impact of this...
Progressive Breakfast
FBI Raids Trump Lawyer Cohen FBI raids office of Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. NYT: "The F.B.I. raided the Rockefeller Center office and Park Avenue hotel room of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, on Monday morning, seizing...
Equal Pay Day at Your Local Coffee Shop!
It’s Equal Pay Day, America. That’s the day when women’s wages finally catch up with what men were paid in the previous year. How much more, you ask, did men receive? $840 billion. That’s a lot of lattes. What would you do with your share of that $840 billion? I can...
As the World Watches Syria, Don’t Forget About Yemen
In the time it takes to read these words, a child under the age of five will probably die in Yemen. And, as this is being written, the U.N. Security Council is meeting to discuss a gas attack in Syria. President Trump, with newly-appointed National Security Advisor...
Progressive Breakfast
Syria Crisis Looms Over White House Syria attack response looms over Bolton's first week in WH. CNN: "John Bolton faces a baptism of fire on Monday, his first official day as President Donald Trump's national security adviser. The brutal chemical weapons attack in...
How Trump's Immigration Policies Harm Children
The Trump administration has attacked immigrant communities from day one with a range of misguided proposals and executive orders that undermine civil rights and terrify families. These efforts are having devastating effects - right now, as well as potentially long...
Deep and Abiding Disrespect for Teachers
GOP politicians have so denigrated public school teachers that the educators in three states have engaged in wildcat strikes, mobbing their capitol buildings and demanding improved school funding for students and better pay and benefits for themselves and other workers.
Progressive Breakfast
US, China Trade Threats Escalate Trump threatens China with new $100 billion tariff plan. CNN: "President Donald Trump ratcheted up the trade war rhetoric with China on Thursday evening, saying he was considering another wave of steep tariffs on the country's exports...
Standing Up for Rural Voters in North Carolina
Far-right radicals have made North Carolina the place to test their most extreme ideas. They redrew our voting maps, disempowered Black voters, shredded our safety net and are trying to pit rural and working people against each other. They rewrote the rules to benefit...
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Wants Troops At Mexican Border WH makes hasty plan to send National Guard to border, leaving mission and duration unclear. LA Times: "The Trump administration announced a hastily assembled plan Wednesday to deploy National Guard troops along the southwestern...