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Donald Trump Doesn't Understand Social Security
The truth is undocumented immigrants have paid billions of dollars into the Social Security system but legally can't collect benefits. Claims to the contrary appear designed to undermine support for Social Security.
Progressive Breakfast
ISDS Exposé Blow To TPP Buzzfeed begins four-part series on investor-state dispute settlement courts, a key feature of TPP: "The BuzzFeed News investigation ... will show how the mere threat of an ISDS case can intimidate a nation into gutting its own laws, how some...
The “People’s Fed” and the Oracles of Jackson Hole
Many of the Fed officials who met with Fed Up activists expressed support, at least in principle, for the group's goals. That's commendable. But the Fed is hamstrung by its own ambiguous structure.
Wingnut Week In Review: The GOP Won’t Defend Trump, Or Denounce Him
This week, Hillary Clinton linked Donald Trump to white supremacists and white nationalists in the alt-right movement, and laid bare his own history of racial discrimination. Republicans responded with deafening silence.
You Used To Be Able To Take Them To Court
Arbitration clauses keep you from taking companies to court when they do wrong. The CFPB is working on a rule to protect you when finance agreements are involved.
Don’t Underestimate How Much Steve Bannon Can Damage Hillary Clinton
Inside the liberal bubble, Democrats may be taking Steve Bannon’s appointment to help run Donald Trump’s campaign as a something of a joke. But, at their peril, they underestimate Bannon’s ability to harm Hillary Clinton.
Progressive Breakfast
Clinton Takes On Trump and the 'Alt-Right' Jamelle Bouie at Slate explains why "Hillary Clinton’s Alt-Right Speech Was Shrewd Strategy": "As analysis, Clinton’s argument about Trump’s distance from the rest of the GOP is wrong. ... As strategy, however, Clinton’s...
Clinton Reminds Us That Silence Never Defeats Hatred
Hillary Clinton could have stuck to a bit of time-honored advice in online circles: don’t feed the trolls. Instead, Clinton reminded Americans that hatred must be called out and exposed for what it is.
The Disturbing Dawn Of The Alt-Right
Donald Trump's nationalism is absolutely about ethno-purity and there's an element of populism as well. But it's largely about wounded national pride which has been a potent motivating force on the American right for a very long time.
Labor Department Issues Final 'Fair Pay And Safe Workplaces' Rules
The Department of Labor has released the final rules for implementing President Obama's two-year-old Fair Pay And Safe Workplaces executive order. Republicans complain.
