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Are Public Schools And Private Equity A Bad Mix?
Cities and towns are required to offer citizens a free education. That doesn’t mean that schools aren’t fair game for privatization. Detroit’s system incentivized a predatory sector to move into the city to get a good return on investment.
Big Climate Win In The Senate, But The Battle Is Not Over
A Senate committee approves money for a climate fund. Deep down, Republicans seem to know that it is a political loser with the broad middle of the country to sabotage the president from acting on climate change.
Progressive Breakfast
Groundbreaking Report On Student Debt Consumer Reports and the nonprofit Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting have partnered to produce a special report series examining the nation’s growing student debt crisis, in which some 42 million people owe $1.3...
Dear Tony Blair: It's Not the Pitch, It's the Product.
Although Tony Blair laments the failure of the “political center,” the Brexit vote didn’t happen because he and his colleagues failed. It happened because they succeeded. Voters don't like the effects on either side of the Atlantic.
Paul Ryan’s Hot New Idea: More Rank Corporate Giveaways
Some were excited when Speaker Ryan called a major press conference to present his idea for fixing the economy. But, sheesh. The House speaker's "economic agenda" would fix the economy in the same way a vet fixes your dog.
Here's How Clinton's Latest College Debt-Relief Plan Misses The Mark
The Democratic presidential nominee plays into a right-wing narrative of the economy that exalts so-called "job creators" but offers little if anything to the people doing those jobs.
Veepstakes: Tim Kaine's Troubles With The Left
Now Hillary Clinton knows what message a Sen. Tim Kaine nomination will send to Bernie Sanders voters; the question remains if that's the message she wants to send.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Stakes Ground On Trade Trump promises to withdraw from trade deals in PA speech. NYT: "He threatened to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement and pledged to label China a currency manipulator and impose punitive tariffs on Chinese goods ......
Trump is a William McKinley Protectionist, Not a Bernie Sanders Populist
Donald Trump is not a Bernie Sanders populist. He cares not a whit about raising labor, health, human rights and environmental standards at home or abroad. His trade vision turns the clock back to the Gilded Age.
Burning Issues: What Our China Policy Should Be
Instead of listening to voices inside the Pentagon calling for more military muscle against China, we should continue President Obama's policy of "strategic patience," Lawrence Korb says in this Burning Issues video.
