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Pounding On This Again, Begging For Infrastructure Investment
With every bridge collapse, train derailment and water main breakage, it just becomes more and more obvious that the country needs to fix its infrastructure. This week brings a new study that underscores the need.
The Koch Brothers Cue the Music
A slick new ad campaign from America’s most notorious billionaires is tugging at our heartstrings — and distorting the debate over inequality. The good news? We have a new antidote.
Nobody Cares About Paul Ryan's Conservative Rehash
Ryan has served up cold conservative porridge. Nothing that showed any lessons learned from the failed conservatism of the past. Nothing that went beyond hack anti-Obama talking points.
Progressive Breakfast
The Bern Still Burns "People’s Summit Attendees Leave Determined To Keep 'The Bern' Alive" reports OurFuture.org's Isaiah J. Poole: "After an intense weekend of speeches and discussion about the future of the progressive 'political revolution' sparked by the Bernie...
Bernie Sanders’ Leverage Isn’t Going Anywhere. Deal With It.
People who believe that Bernie Sanders is squandering his influence in the Democratic Party by not conceding now to Hillary Clinton misunderstand both the candidate and his supporters.
People's Summit Attendees Leave Determined To Keep "The Bern" Alive
An estimated 3,000 people left the People's Summit in Chicago Sunday with a commitment to turn Bernie Sander's presidential campaign into a permanent independent movement for justice and equality.
Wingnut Week In Review: The 5 Worst Right-Wing Responses To Orlando
While the rest of the country, and the rest of the world stood with Orlando in grief and solidarity, right-wingers tried to outdo each other with awful reactions.
People's Summit Seeks To Take 'Political Revolution' To The Next Level
Continuing Sen. Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" is the focus of a weekend People's Summit that is bringing to Chicago an estimated 3,000 progressive leaders and grassroots activists.
Why Denver Is A Warning Sign, Not A Model, for Urban School Districts
Denver is being widely hailed as the next model of "education reform" for other urban districts. But of the 27 charter schools the city has opened in the past five years, at least 40 percent are performing below expectations.
Progressive Breakfast
Sanders Eyes Platform Bernie Sanders address brings attention to party platform: "...we must take [our] energy into the Democratic National Convention ... the Democratic Party must support raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour ... We must defeat the...
