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Truth And Consequences in Flint, And Beyond
In one day of the three-year-old Flint, Mich., water contamination crisis, a Flint truth-teller is honored, three officials face criminal charges, and demands continue for more truth-telling and accountability.
Why Isn’t Everyone In Favor of Taxing Financial Speculation?
Even though it’s an excellent idea championed by a major candidate, a financial transactions tax isn’t being discussed this election year because Wall Street won’t abide it.
Is The Paris Climate Agreement Too Little Too Late?
We should celebrate how much we have been able to accomplish, but with our eyes wide open, knowing that there will surely be more we will have to do and more battles to fight.
China Says No To Fixing Steel Problem
China is producing much more steel than the country and the world can use, forcing steel companies in the U.S. and elsewhere to shut down production and lay off workers. They are rejecting calls to stop this overproduction.
Progressive Breakfast
Clinton Eyes General, Sanders Eyes Convention Clinton again tries to pivot to the general election. Bloomberg: "Hillary Clinton's campaign is moving rapidly to set up the infrastructure she'll need for the general election, a process that will unfold mostly behind the...
The Big Apple Goes With the Home Team
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won their home state last night. New Yorkers gave Ted Cruz a full helping of their values, and none of their delegates. Bernie Sanders' loss broke his momentum, but he'll fare better in upcoming primaries.
American Workers Crushed Under China’s Deliberate Overproduction
China makes way, way too much steel – nearly 500 million tons more than it needed last year – to keep its citizens employed, its mills running and its country free of civic unrest. It exports that steel – and unemployment.
Panama Trade Agreement: Was Tax Evasion The Point All Along?
The Panama free trade agreement actually restricted the ability to do anything about Panama's bank and corporate secrecy. Was that the point all along?
Inequality: The Great Political And Moral Issue Of Our Time
The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great economic issue of our time, the great political issue of our time, and the great moral issue of our time. It is an issue that we must confront in my nation and across the world.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: The U.S. Exporting Climate Change Kyle Ash, senior legislative representative at Greenpeace, says in this Burning Issues video that there are real dangers that the U.S. will facilitate the extraction of new fossil fuel sources around the world, despite...
