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Burning Issues: Keep The Terror Threat In Context
Paul Pillar, a former U.S. intelligence official and author who now writes at The National Interest, discusses the importance of not overreacting to ISIS and other terror threats in this Burning Issues video segment.
Paul Ryan Is Not The One To Save The GOP From Donald Trump
House Speaker Paul Ryan won’t save the Republican Party from what having Donald Trump as its nominee would do to the party. Beneath his cool, less orange exterior, Ryan isn’t all that different from Trump.
Chamber Works To Defeat, Not Implement, Its Own Members' Preferences
The Chamber of Commerce polled local, state and national business leaders and found they overwhelming support policies like raising the minimum wage. So what did the Chamber do?
Getting Over Our 'Amnesia' About The Value Of An Activist Government
Jacob Hacker's latest book examines the history of shared prosperity through an activist government that conservatives have worked hard to make us forget and that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is working to reclaim.
One-Third Of Wisconsin GOP Voters Won't Vote Trump ... Or Cruz
The Republican Party is ceasing to be a cohesive party. Both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz would lose a significant bloc of Republican voters in November. The GOP schism runs deep and it's about race.
Progressive Breakfast
Note to readers: OurFuture.org was offline for a few hours this morning. The site is now back to normal. Apologies for any inconvenience. Burning Issues: The U.S. Plan For New Nuclear Weapons Lawrence Korb, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress,...
Wisconsin Adds Momentum To The Sanders Revolution
Pundits dismissing Bernie Sanders' chances to win the Democratic nomination say he has to win over 55 percent of the vote in remaining contests to catch up to Hillary Clinton. He’s now done that or better in each of the last six races.
Burning Issues: The U.S. Plan For New Nuclear Weapons
Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress discusses what the United States should do to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons and highlights a key difference between presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and his competitors.
Even Centrist Third Way Gets It: We Need To Spend Big On Infrastructure
Third Way is helping to mainstream the same kind of jumpstart in job-producing investment called for by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
February Trade Deficit Was Enormous, Humongous And Caused Job Loss
Voters have certainly caught on that these disastrous trade policies, resulting in continuing enormous, humongous trade deficits, are driving jobs and wages away.