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The Choice Is Not Between TPP Or No Trade
The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s strongest opponents are not against trade. What we are arguing for is using a blueprint that already exists to write trade agreements that actually benefit American workers.
So MANY Op-Eds Pushing Corporate "Free Trade"
As Bernie Sanders' and Donald Trump's campaign criticisms of our country's disastrous trade policies resonate with voters, "establishment" pundits explain that moving millions of jobs out of the country is good for us.
Wingnut Week In Review: Brussels and Bigotry
The dust had not yet settled, the smoke had not yet cleared, and the body count had not yet begun before right-wingers used the terrorist attacks in Brussels to spout their usual brand of bigotry.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Why Honduras Matters In The 2016 Campaign Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research discusses the candidate's the assassination of a Honduras environmental activist and what it says about the Democratic candidates' foreign policy, in...
Burning Issues: Why Honduras Matters In The 2016 Campaign
Who was Berta Cáceres, why was she murdered in Honduras and, most importantly, why should that matter in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign? Mark Weisbrot explains in the latest in our video series.
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.
