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Dr. Billionaire, Meet Dr. Salk
Can we conquer disease without concentrating wealth in a precious few pockets? Not-so-distant American history offers a clear and encouraging answer. The victory over polio a half-century ago created no billionaires.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Alienates GOP Donors With Kochs sitting on their wallet, Trump turns to RNC. NYT: "Donald J. Trump took steps to appropriate much of the Republican National Committee’s financial and political infrastructure ... Trump has no fund-raising apparatus to resort to...
Donald Trump's Trick To Pose as a Populist
Donald Trump has a trick he likes to use when he wants to communicate two different messages to two different constituencies: incoherence. It doesn't take much to expose incoherence, yet it seems to flummox media headline writers.
Derailed in D.C.: “Bomb Trains," Poison Tracks and My Chemical Exposure
A CSX freight train derailed in Washington, D.C. last week. To be fair, our society has been consistently indifferent to railway accidents everywhere. But each is a warning.
Interest on the Debt Is Near a Post-War Low
As the media erupt in fury over Donald Trump's comments on the debt, it is worth taking the opportunity to remind people that the interest burden on the national debt is near a post-World War II low.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Buying Weapons That Don’t Work The F-35 fighter place is a textbook example of how tax dollars are wasted on Pentagon weaponry, Mandy Smithberger, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight, explains in this...
Burning Issues: Buying Weapons That Don't Work
The F-35 fighter place exemplifies how tax dollars are wasted at the Pentagon and how "political engineering" makes a project "too big to fail," Project on Government Oversight's Mandy Smithberger explains in this Burning Issues video.
Clinton Commits: No TPP, Fundamentally Rethink Trade Policies
Candidate Clinton not only committed to opposing TPP before and after the election, she said "we need a fundamental rethink of how we approach trade deals going forward."
Wingnut Week In Review: Trumped
This week saw the end of both Ted Cruz’s and John Kasich’s presidential campaigns, as well as the death of modern conservatism — killed off by a guy who bears more than a passing resemblance to an Oompa Loompa.
No, Trump Did Not Change His Position On The Minimum Wage
Is his recent minimum wage comment a real shift in position? Is he breaking with conservative orthodoxy? Is he showing that deep down, he truly has working people's interests at heart? Nope, nope, and nope.
