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Inequality's Getting Worse. How Do We End This?
At the start of the Independence Day weekend, we learned that income inequality in this country became even worse last year. Economic inequality produces scars that last a lifetime – and even longer. We must act.
Open Letter to Donald Trump's Campaign
Your campaign does not represent the politics of Lincoln, the call of justice, or the ethics of Biblical evangelicalism. Instead, your campaign presents an extremist philosophy of hate, greed, racism, classism, and xenophobia.
Betrayed Again, This Time By Unconvincing Arguments For The TPP
President Obama’s pushing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is recklessly irresponsible politics that benefits Donald Trump. He must be made to realize that every time he pushes TPP, he might as well be campaigning for Trump.
Billionaire Trump Claims Steelworker Status
Trump, who brags, “I am really rich,” wants to climb out of his luxury sky box and sit in the nosebleed seats with hardworking Rust-Belters who sweat over mortgage payments. It’s a joke. It’s a British royalist claiming to be a colonist.
Progressive Breakfast
Trade Issue Roils Both Parties Trump message on trade threatens Clinton, reports W. Post: "... the risk is not necessarily losing support directly to Trump but rather not inspiring enough enthusiasm among rank-and-file union workers, whose turnout and ground-level...
For Vice President: Senator Jeff Merkley
Hillary Clinton is now deciding on her running mate. Dozens of potential names are mentioned. Too often the lists omit the name of the one person most fit for the job: Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon. Let's look at the politics.
Wingnut Week In Review: The Benghazi Committee Takes A Bow
It took Republicans four years, over $7 million, eight congressional investigations, 11 hours grilling Hillary Clinton, and 800 pages to admit that Clinton was not at fault in Benghazi attack. But that doesn’t mean it's over.
What's Next For The Progressive Movement?
As Bernie Sanders himself has tried to make clear, this is about more than one candidate, election cycle, or political moment. It’s about millions coming together to demand that we fundamentally restructure our society.
Progressive Breakfast
TPP Tops Sanders' List... "Sanders is itching for a convention fight" reports Politico: "...the draft document ... is headed to a full vote before the 187-member platform committee on July 8 and 9 in Orlando ...'I know that on TPP, I know that on the issue of...
Philadelphia’s Forgotten Spirit of 1776
We all know what happened in the City of Brotherly Love 240 years ago on July 4. Maybe we should also pay some attention to what took place there two months later as we consider the state of our economic inequality.
