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Gun Control Legislation Is Constitutional
It’s time to stop letting the NRA scare the burgeoning gun safety movement led by courageous student survivors into accepting small-bore reforms out of a mistaken belief that stronger gun safety laws would be unconstitutional.
Janus: Billionaires Take on Public Employees and their Unions
If the Gorsuch Supreme Court prevails in Janus, they will succeed in weakening unions, lowering wages and benefits for public employees, while exacerbating the savage inequality that already subverts our democracy.
Progressive Breakfast
WV Teachers In Statewide Strike West Virginia teachers continue strike for fourth day. WaPo: "A teacher strike in West Virginia stretched on Monday, with classes canceled across the state for a third day and demonstrators continuing to flock to the capital city. The...
Picture the United States Without Student Debt
A new report concludes that cancelling all student debt would create more than a million jobs. To those who say we can’t afford to cancel this debt, the report poses a new and different question: Can we afford not to?
How Democrats Can Offer Real Solutions to America’s Problems
Resistance alone is not enough. That's why 70 progressive leaders have outlined a new economic agenda, and pledged to work towards a movement that can fix our rigged economy.
Progressive Breakfast
SCOTUS Opens Case To Curb Unions Case may enable U.S. Supreme Court to curb union power. Reuters: "The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider for the second time in two years whether to choke off a critical funding stream for public-employee unions, potentially...
The Big Pharma Family that Brought Us the Opioid Crisis
Who will bring to justice those who have profited the most royally from addiction? These drug pushers have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, enough fatalities to actually decrease U.S. life expectancy for the past two years running.
Black Children Have the Right to be Children
Black children in the United States are all too often robbed of their most essential right: the right to be children, who can play, learn and grow up with nourishment, love, educational opportunities, health care and safe homes.
Progressive Breakfast
NRA Boycott Gathers Steam #BoycottNRA: Enterprise car rentals, Omaha bank sever gun lobby ties as boycott movement gains steam. WaPo: "Two major companies, Enterprise Holdings Inc. and First National Bank of Omaha ended co-branding partnerships with the National Rifle...
How to Argue With Gun Nuts
Pro-gun advocates almost never argue the merits of specific legislation. Their constant tactic is to use logical fallacies to sidetrack the discussion. Here is how you can respond.
