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Video Interview: Steve Phillips, "Brown is the New White"
Are the Democrats doing enough to register the voters of the "New American Majority," bring them to the polls, and win their support once they're there? We spoke with Steve Phillips about his new book, "Brown is the New White."
Elizabeth Warren's Latest Challenge To College Loan Corruption
The Massachusetts senator is calling out the U.S. Department of Education for a significant part of its role in being complicit with college loan debt-rigging.
Trade Deficit with S. Korea Doubled During Four Years Of Trade Pact
Back when the Korean-U.S. free trade agreement was being debated, several labor and other organizations warned this would happen: Instead of balanced trade and more jobs, trade deficits would increase and potential jobs would be lost.
Progressive Breakfast
Bernie Targets Midwest In Today's Primaries Today's primaries are "Bernie's big chance to rattle the race." Politico: "Even if Tuesday doesn’t significantly alter the delegate math that makes Clinton the prohibitive front-runner, a strong Sanders performance in the...
The Economic Justice We Should Be Voting For
As primaries are held in cities that have some of the worst racial disparities in the country, is the key issue that Bernie Sanders is promising more than he can deliver, or is it that we as voters are not demanding enough?
People's Budget Puts Forward An Aggressive Plan To Green Our Economy
The Congressional Caucus' budget proposal for fiscal 2017 includes a set of climate-change-related proposals that one environmental organization says makes it "the greenest option in Washington."
Trump's Big Weekend
Last week Donald Trump's rallies took yet another dark turn, but if he plays his cards right, a few months down the line he might have succeeded in muddying reality enough to have most Republicans blaming Democrats for what he started.
Republicans Chase Immigrant Boogeymen While Climate Roasts Middle East
One thing happening in the real world that Republicans have no interest addressing is the new NASA report concluding that the Middle East is suffering its worst drought in 900 years, and that human-created climate change is a contributor.
Progressive Breakfast
Dems Battle For Midwest Democrats lay out their Trump strategies in CNN town hall: "[Clinton] said she's the best bet to stand up to Trump in the general election because the Republicans who have 'been after me for 25 years' have already thrown the entire book at her...
What's The Problem With "Free Trade"?
Our country’s “free trade” agreements have followed a framework of trading away our democracy and middle-class prosperity in exchange for letting the biggest corporations dominate.
