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Our Fight for Health Care During Recess and Beyond
Republican leaders in Congress are still gunning for our health care; their radical plans for our economy leave them no choice. During Resistance Recess, we'll let lawmakers know we'll keep fighting so everyone gets the care the need.
The New Deal for Tribes: Resource Extraction & Toxic Waste, Minus Jobs
There's a story many tribal communities know: companies come in and promise jobs. Once the resource is consumed, the company disappears, leaving toxic waste. Once there were at least jobs cleaning up the mess. Now even these jobs are gone.
Enormous Wealth and the Quest for Eternal Life
The deepest of our deep pockets are now pumping millions into immortality research. Should we be amused — or alarmed?
Did Trump Attack Syria for Personal Profit?
At any other time and under any other circumstances, a standing president turning a profit on a missile strike would be the scandal of the decade. With Donald Trump in the Oval Office, we call it Monday.
The Trump Economy Myth and Job-Killing Policies
When it comes to the economy, Trump does not offer real job-creating policy, only propaganda of the moment, to be reversed as soon as it becomes convenient. What he has has actually done will undercut job and wage growth.
Progressive Breakfast
Congress on Edge Conservatives wary of secret talks to keep government open. Bloomberg: "Members of Congress are back home for a two-week recess ... Government funding expires on April 28, which will give Congress five days [when they return] ... a bipartisan group of...
Trump's Syria Strike Displays Arrogance, Not Toughness
Donald Trump's bombing of Syria is the most irresponsible act of his circus presidency thus far. It is a continuation of the costly fantasy of the U.S. as the “indispensable nation,” willing and able to police the world.
Don’t Let Trump’s Bedlam Distract from Betrayals
Jeb Bush dubbed Donald Trump the "chaos candidate," and this is the one claim he's lived up to. As president, Trump is swiftly shedding his most popular populist economic promises with the ease of a confidence man.
Gorsuch Wrong for Colorado's Working Families
From Colorado's legal elites, we've been hearing praise in the media for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. But for the majority of Coloradans — and Americans — who are everyday working people, Judge Gorsuch's record bodes ill.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Bombs Syria NBC asks what's next: "The Trump team has taken pains to emphasize that the move was a 'proportionate' response to the chemical attack, but what comes next? And if the goal is ending the bloodshed in Syria, how will Trump finish the job?"...
