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The Orange Menace and the Even More Dangerous Party That Stands With Him
Trump has helped rouse the resistance and inspire new movements. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” After one year of Trump, we can already see the first rays of light.
Progressive Breakfast
Negotiations On DACA Fix Turn Into Standoff Political agenda keeps Trump and Congress apart on a fix for immigrant 'Dreamers'"President Trump will convene a bipartisan group of lawmakers Tuesday to discuss immigration at the White House, but leaders remain far apart...
Twenty Quotes for the #Resistance in 2018
We who oppose tyranny in all its guises don’t yet have our own Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Martin Luther King, Jr. - but we have their words.
Betsy DeVos Harms Higher Ed More Than K-12 in 2017
DeVos calls loudly for K-12 "school choice" and neglects younger students' civil rights, but she has proven far more effective at gutting regulations that protect the rights of college students and college student loan borrowers.
Progressive Breakfast
Government Shutdown Looms Spending crisis looms as Dems and GOP tussle on priorities. Bloomberg: "Republicans and Democrats in Congress are once again far apart on a government spending bill with just days to go before a partial shutdown. The next deadline is Jan. 19,...
The GOP’s 100-Year War Is Bigger Than Taxes or Trump
The deeper forces of history are on the move, and we ignore them at our peril. Trump and his fellow Republicans are radically rewiring our political and economic order. This is a long game, and it can’t be won by playing defensively.
The Free Market Made Us Do It!
A new global CEO pay comparison, the most rigorous and comprehensive yet, demolishes the standard-issue corporate rationale for America’s over-the-top executive compensation.
Progressive Breakfast
Congress Punts Big Fights To January Congress passes stopgap bill to avoid government shutdown. NYT: "Congress gave final approval on Thursday to legislation to keep the government funded into January, averting a government shutdown this weekend but kicking fights...
The Middle Class Is So Christmas Past
The GOP really is the Grinch that stole Christmas. Republicans filched and handed it to the wealthiest one percent. But unlike the Dr. Seuss story, this Grinch isn’t going to find a heart and stop robbing middle-class workers and the poor.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Poised To Sign Tax Plan We’re witnessing the wholesale looting of America. Vox: "Over the course of 2017, both in Congress and in the executive branch, we have watched the task of government devolve into the full-scale looting of America. Politicians are making...
