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The Big Education Fight In The Democratic Party
The conventional wisdom supporting the market competition of charter schools is being questioned, this time from the most unlikely source – presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
Yellow Canaries and Middle-Aged White Men
Startling new data from the National Academy of Sciences suggest that extreme inequality may be exacting a much steeper price – on our health – than we’ve up to now expected.
Progressive Breakfast
Colorado May Go Single-Payer Colorado to have 2016 ballot initiative establishing single-payer. Politico: "Supporters, who won approval this week for a 2016 ballot measure after securing nearly 110,000 signatures deemed valid, will sell the overhaul as an Obamacare...
The Crisis In White America the GOP Did Not Debate – But Democrats Must
Studies like the one done by two Princeton University professors on increasing mortality rates among whites are precisely why progressives need to unapologetically press the case for bold economic reforms.
Which Ben Carson Will Show Up At Tonight’s GOP Debate?
The biggest question leading up to the fourth GOP presidential debate is which Ben Carson will show up tonight? Will it be the soft-spoken retired neurosurgeon, or the defensive fabulist?
Fast-Food Strikes, Protests Hit Hundreds Of Cities
On Tuesday the Fight For $15 movement hit the fast-food industry with "Come Get My Vote" strikes and protests in hundreds of U.S. cities, all demanding a $15 minimum wage.
Noted Economist Sachs Calls TPP "Too Flawed" To Approve
Noted economist Jeffrey Sachs – who makes it clear he likes its free-trade provisions – explains why the Trans-Pacific Partnership is nonetheless too flawed for Congress to sign.
Stan Greenberg Sees a Way for Democrats to Retake the Senate in 2016
Winning the Senate will take offering voters a progressive reform agenda, which Democracy Corps lays out in a strategy memo and Greenberg details in his latest book, "America Ascendant."
The TPP: Another Deadly Trade Deal
It was cruel enough that America countenanced trade deals that cost millions of U.S. manufacturing workers their source of income. But now that it’s clear that bad trade schemes also cost workers their lives, the TPP must be stopped.
Progressive Breakfast
Immigration Setback Conservative appeals court blocks Obama's deportation relief. NYT: "A federal appeals court said Monday that President Obama could not move forward with his plans to overhaul immigration rules ... saying a lawsuit brought by 26 states to block Mr....
