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How Breaking Government Hurts Children
After years of declarations that “government is the problem” and we should “drown it in a bathtub,” new reports reveal that years of hating government are taking their toll on government services essential to children.
Are Republicans Willing To Stop Trump at the Convention?
If the anti-Donald Trump majority wanted to band together and stop him, they would have the numbers, and the legitimacy, to do so. The big question is whether they have the will.
Trump’s and Cruz’s Tax Plans Are Huge Redistributions To The Rich
If either of these men is elected president, we could see the largest redistribution in American history from the poor and middle-class of America to the rich. This is class warfare with a vengeance.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Will More Nuclear Weapons Make Us Safer? Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, discusses the drawbacks of investing in our nuclear arsenal in the latest video installment of Burning Issues. Click here for the full Burning Issues series....
A Corporate/Billionaire Austerity Budget Or A People's Prosperity Budget
You might not know there is an alternative budget proposal that is much more in line with the priorities and values of "We the People," and that budget is in front of the Congress right now.
Burning Issues: Will More Nuclear Weapons Make Us Safer?
In this video, Ploughshares Fund president Joe Cirincione offers a startling fact about the potential resurgence of a nuclear arms race and where the presidential candidates stand.
Time for These Two Democrats to Go
There are two Democrats whose resignation from office right now would do their party and country a service. Each represents what's wrong with a Democratic Party that has abandoned the working men and women it once so proudly represented.
Trump Says He Won't Be In Debt To Super PAC Donors. Then What's This?
Great America PAC just dropped $1 million on a TV ad touting Donald Trump as a "unifier." What's important is not the disingenuousness of the message, but the source. It's a super PAC ad, and Trump claims to disavow super PACs.
Medicare Ratings Of Medicare Advantage Plans A Farce
Cigna was sanctioned by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for conduct that "poses a serious threat to the health and safety of Medicare beneficiaries." So why does it keep its favorable star rating?
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Is Our Military Big Enough? Miriam Pemberton of Institute for Policy Studies challenges Republican claims of an underfunded military in the latest video installment of Burning Issues. Click here for the entire Burning Issues video series with expert...
