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Our Failure to Invest in Infrastructure Is Literally Making Us Sick
It’s one thing for congressional leaders to carry on with their budget antics year in and year out, skirting disaster, even with all that’s at stake. But the lack of response to the emergency in Flint takes it to a whole new level.
Burning Issues: Why The Pentagon Needs an Audit
The next president and Congress needs to make an audit of the Defense Department a top priority to root out waste and what the Project on Government Oversight's Danielle Brian calls "legalized corruption."
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Takes Low Road Trump plans scorched-earth campaign. NYT: "Mr. Trump will try to hold her accountable for security lapses at the American consulate in Benghazi ... And he intends to portray Mrs. Clinton as fundamentally corrupt, invoking everything from her...
What’s Killing the American Middle Class?
A new study by the Pew Research Center spurred a rash of headlines last week about the "dying" middle class. It's dying, but not from natural causes. It's being killed. What – and, for that matter, who – is responsible?
Is This The Return Of U.S. 'Gunboat Diplomacy' Serving Corporations?
Colombia is allowing a generic form of a cancer drug that is ultraexpensive thanks to a government-granted monopoly granted to a giant, multinational pharmaceutical corporation.
The $3,400 'Tax' You're Paying That The Media Decided Not To Talk About
Something that is costing each American family on average $3,400 a year is worth at least a few minutes of discussion – and that something is our inadequate national investment in our infrastructure.
Wingnut Week In Review: True Colors
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign says that selecting a well-known white nationalist as one of its delegates in California, was due to a “technical error.” But it was really Trump’s campaign showing its true colors, again.
Trump Removes All Doubt: He Will Give The Rich a Massive Tax Cut
The only uncertainty would be how the billions in tax giveaways to billionaires would be delivered: hand-delivered and wrapped in gold-plated bows, or directly wired from government coffers to their offshore accounts.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Is the Iran Nuclear Deal Working? In today's Burning Issues video, Kate Gould of the Friends Committee on National Legislation explains why now is the time for supporters of peace and diplomacy to reassert what the deal the Obama administration struck...
Tech Companies Dodge Taxes; Silicon Valley Region Pays The Price
Silicon Valley's tech companies create billionaires and magnificently reward the "investor class," but they give little or nothing back to the surrounding communities and country.
