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The Anti-Job-Creation Party Wants Welfare Recipients To Work
The principle that every person who wants to work should have a job is one that progressives and conservatives could unite around – if conservatives believed that government had a role to play in helping to create jobs.
Good News For The Climate: Obama Wins Big Pledge From India
Naysayers on the right complained that Democrats were letting China and India off the hook. Now that Obama has forged climate deals with both China and India, the naysayers have been proven wrong.
Progressive Breakfast
Sanders Still In It To Win It Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says don't "rush to judgment" as primary polls open in six states. "The spokesman, Michael Briggs, said Clinton hasn't secured the nomination because superdelegates, party leaders who can...
The Buck Never Stops at Donald Trump
Donald Trump told veterans on national TV that he raised $6 million for them. Then he refused to account for where the money went. Trump believes he should always be praised and never held liable, no matter what he does.
Social Security’s Enemies Are Down – But They’re Not Out
Things have changed. An idea that was widely dismissed when Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed it in Congress is now the Democratic position. The anti-Social Security army seems to be in ragged retreat. But this isn't over.
American Culture Is Threatened by Hate Speech
If we allow Donald Trump to radically alter our national culture, to make the unacceptable acceptable, it will be nearly impossible to change it back. Crudeness and bigotry will become mainstream—the new normal.
Trump Has No Use For Dog Whistles
Donald Trump's brazen racism, in addition to being immoral and appalling, is political malpractice. He is so consumed by racism that he can't contain it. He is blinded by it, and is incapable of rational political decision-making.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: How Currency Manipulation Costs Us Trade expert Pat Mulloy, in this Burning Issues video, says the Trans-Pacific Partnership does not address a key driver of the job-sapping trade deficits the United States has with some of its trading partners,...
Burning Issues: How Currency Manipulation Costs Us
The Trans-Pacific Partnership does not address a key driver of the job-sapping trade deficits the United States has with some of its trading partners, trade expert Pat Mulloy explains in this Burning Issues video.
Even if Clinton's Already Won, A Vote for Sanders Can Help Defeat Trump
Hillary Clinton asserts she has already won. But even if she is right, a big vote for Bernie Sanders in the upcoming June 7 primaries could help unite progressives and win the general election against Donald Trump.
