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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.
Burning Issues: Is the Iran Nuclear Deal Working?
Critics of the Iran nuclear deal have stepped up their opposition, but there are clear successes that supporters need to keep elevating, says Kate Gould of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in this Burning Issues video.
Work-Life Balance Matters To Millennial Voters
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders should emphasize their proposals to federally enforce comprehensive parental and sick leave as one way to connect with younger voters.
Teachers Are Increasingly Frustrated, And That's Bad For Students
Frontline educators are committed to students and satisfied with schools but are deeply frustrated with how they’re being treated. The discontent is the continuation of a long and alarming trend that has negative effects on students.
Does Moving Jobs Out Of The Country Affect What People Here Get Paid?
Do laid-off workers stay where they are, or do they move to look for jobs, competing with people elsewhere, thereby lowering everyone's wages? There is a simple way to check.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: The Arms Trade As A Foreign Policy Tool The next president should end the practice of recent presidents of using arms sales as an instrument of foreign policy, says William Hartung, director of the arms and security project at the Center for...
How We Must Face The Rise Of The Radical Right
What we should have learned from the 1930s is that the first responsibility of anyone who seeks to lead a democracy should be to make sure that democratic governance provides economic justice and economic security.
