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Is Pete Buttigieg A Shill For The Donor Class?
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Maltese-American mayor of South Bend, the fourth-largest town in Indiana, is the shiny new object in the race to become the Democrats' candidate for president in 2020. Coming from almost...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld How Social Media Amplifies Trump’s Rants And Disinformation As 2020 nears, disinformation—intentionally false political propaganda—is increasing and getting nastier. Central to this disturbing trend is President Trump, whose...
How Social Media Amplifies Trump's Rants And Disinformation
Photo credit: White House official photo / cc As 2020 nears, disinformation—intentionally false political propaganda—is increasing and getting nastier. Central to this disturbing trend is President Trump, whose re-election campaign and allies revel in mixing selected...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Corporate Spies Keep An Eye On Organized Labor Google’s computers are spying on its workers. Anytime a Google employee uses an online calendar to schedule a meeting involving more than 100 co-workers, management gets an alert—a great way for...
Corporate Spies Keep An Eye On Organized Labor
Google’s computers are spying on its workers. Anytime a Google employee uses an online calendar to schedule a meeting involving more than 100 co-workers, management gets an alert—a great way for the anti-union corporation to sniff out union organizing efforts. Lots of...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Robert Borosage Warren Won’t Back Down On Medicare For All When Elizabeth Warren was criticized for not detailing how she would pay for Medicare for All, most pundits assumed she would duck and cover. M4A is Bernie Sanders’s signature legislation, but...
Warren Won't Back Down On Medicare For All
When Elizabeth Warren was criticized for not detailing how she would pay for Medicare for All, most pundits assumed she would duck and cover. M4A is Bernie Sanders’s signature legislation, but the establishment dismisses him as a movement candidate. Warren, on the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Mehrdad Azemun How We Can Breathe Life Back Into Democracy Many people hate the word “politics.” They equate it with corruption, greed and the consolidation of unchecked power. And the U.S. Presidential race only magnifies these feelings and...
We Can Breathe Life Back Into Democracy
Many people hate the word “politics.” They equate it with corruption, greed and the consolidation of unchecked power. And the U.S. Presidential race only magnifies these feelings and perceptions. Our sitting President, Donald Trump, has proven himself a master at...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Striking Teachers Are Fighting For Much More Than Paychecks While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another important story often overlooked by national reporters is the ongoing struggle to...
