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Honoring Lily Eskelsen García: Because The Teachers Were Right
As the granddaughter of a Mississippi sharecropper who worked her way from "lunch lady" to teachers' union president, Lily Eskelsen García has a message for progressives on why we should listen to teachers.
Yet Another Secret Trade Deal - Are We Citizens Or Subjects?
Last week representatives from more than 75 U.S.-based organizations involved in "good governance and transparency" demanded that our government show us proposals made in our name at the trans-Atlantic trade talks.
Sanders Stands with Workers at Verizon – And We Should Stand With Him
I am proud to stand with Sen. Bernie Sanders and hundreds of Verizon workers at a retail store in Manhattan, as 39,000 union members battle for their contract and for organizing and bargaining rights at Verizon Wireless.
Scandal-Mongering Keeps Backfiring On Republicans
Instead of spending the time to identify new ideas, craft polices and corral support for those policies among party members, Republicans spent the last few years going down the Benghazi and IRS rabbit holes.
Did Arne Duncan Just Surrender on Standardized Testing?
The Education department, in a dramatic policy shift, admitted it has encouraged an overreliance on standardized testing in schools. But aside from the astonishing new rhetoric, what will the department actually do?
Progressive Breakfast
Boehner Tries To Take Care Of Loose Ends Boehner tries to pass debt limit before he departs this week. The Hill: "House GOP leaders last week had to scrap a Republican Study Committee plan to raise the debt limit into 2017 attached to a slew of conservative reforms...
National People’s Action: Taking The Crisis To Those Who Created It
National People’s Action will on Tuesday receive the Campaign For America’s Future Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award for its work in taking the economic crisis to doorstep of those who created it.
Wingnut Week In Review: Benghazi Boondoggle Goes Bust
After spending $4.5 million on yet another Benghazi investigation, and questioning Hillary Clinton for eleven hours, the GOPs latest Benghazi hearing leaves one major question unanswered: Did they forget who they were messing with?
Raising Revenues Must Be Central Goal of Budget Talks
It's time for a more balanced approach to budgeting. Let's look at just three reforms to our loophole-riddled tax code that could raise the money we need to avoid more painful service cuts.
Sanders Pushes Postal Banking
We have millions of "unbanked" Americans. The U.S. Postal Service needs to expand its services. Postal banking is an idea whose time has come, and Bernie Sanders is highlighting his support.
