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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...
The Presidential Race: The West Weighs in
In the shadow of the terror in Brussels, voters flocked to the polls in Arizona, and caucused in Utah and Idaho Tuesday. Bernie Sanders keeps rising; Trump's support holds. This race is a long way from over.
Five (of Many) Ways This GOP Budget Would Do Real Harm
The House Republican budget closely mirrors what would face the country if a Republican wins the White House. In a video, Jasmine Tucker of the National Priorities Project discusses what the impact of the budget would be.
Tell the Senate: Do Your Job. Give Merrick Garland a Hearing and a Vote.
Republicans love to complain about people who get money from the government and refuse to work. That is, unless they’re doing so, by refusing to consider the president’s Supreme Court Nominee.
Another Elite Gang-Up On Sanders: His Proposals Would Undo America
Steven Pearlstein warns that government raising the minimum wage to $15, extending public education by four years, providing Medicare-for-All would "turn America into Denmark or Sweden." He means that in a bad way.
Senate GOP Disses American Voters
The GOP is expressing deep derision for 65 million Americans who voted to re-elect Barack Obama and for the American democratic process by obstructing the duly elected U.S. President from fulfilling his Constitutional obligations.
