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Will Republicans Earn "C" or "F" In Managing Government This Semester?
Republicans are already stuck trying to keep the government open through a slapdash "continuing resolution" instead of a negotiated budget. They can't earn an "A." Can they avoid shutdown and get a "C"?
Wingnut Week In Review: Mountain Out of a Molehill
This week, President Obama gave a national landmark its name back. Wingnuts tried to make a mountain out of that molehill. Meanwhile, a Kentucky county clerk goes from standing in the chapel door to sitting in jail.
When Unions And Civil Rights Activists Worked Together
Talk radio host Rick Smith took a "People's Tour" of the South this summer to revisit some of the sites where the fights for racial equality and economic justice intersected.
Labor Day: Fighting For Workers So They Can Fight For Themselves
Attacks from the right on the ability of workers to organize are a fundamental factor in the national debate we should be having over income inequality and how to address it.
America’s Journey for Voting Rights Marches to Raleigh
“No more business as usual!” is the battle cry of America’s Journey. Voting rights, Black lives, Jobs with Justice, and education are all linked on the Journey.
Progressive Breakfast
Republicans Roiled By Controversies "Republican Presidential Contenders Largely Back Kentucky Clerk" reports Time: "Most of the candidates have strongly backed Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed Thursday after defying a U.S. District judge’s order to issue...
Jobs and the Action We Need
The jobs report released today will stoke the debate over whether the Fed should hike interest rates. But the real deal is that wages are still declining. And we need Congress to act, not the Fed.
Enormous, Humongous July Trade Deficit, Even Before China Devaluation
These numbers do not reflect China's big currency devaluation, which happened in August. That is sure to drive the trade deficit higher.
How Not To Give Employees A Raise
Paying to get good behavior would reward bad behavior, completely absolving CEOs and wealthy shareholders of their guilt in creating today’s gross inequality.
Why The Fight For Dyett High School Is A Fight For Democracy
Twelve members of a coalition to save a local, public school in Chicago, Dyett High School, are in the 17th day of a hunger strike. Here’s why their local grievances deserve national concern
