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Talking Less and Listening More To Black Lives Matter Activists
White progressives have been flummoxed by Black Lives Matter protests at presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' campaign events. But if one considers the context, the strategy makes a lot of sense.
Why Corporations Would Love a 'Territorial' Tax – And You Shouldn't
One of the proposals gaining traction in Congress for fixing what everyone agrees is a broken tax system is switching to a territorial tax for corporations. Here’s what you need to know about how it works.
Progressive Breakfast
Hillary's Hybrid Student Loan Plan Hillary Clinton's student loan draws from Democratic and Republican sources. The Atlantic's Tyler Bishop: "Clinton’s plan includes much of [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren’s refinancing proposal ... [Sen. Lamar Alexander's] plan would have...
Those Republican Spending Caps Are Costing Us Jobs
The Congressional Budget Office said that by ending the sequester federal spending caps, the economy would be able to add as many as 1.4 million additional jobs in 2016 and 2017. We need those jobs.
Five Laws That Made America a Better Place
Over a seven-month period in 1965, Congress passed five significant laws that forever changed life in America. What Congress accomplished then puts today’s lawmakers to shame.
Republicans' Have A New Plan To Kill Government Employee Unions
Republicans have tried various tactics over the years to weaken or just get rid of unions, and that includes public employee unions. The latest scheme comes from the Senate.
Why The Lessig Campaign Is Nuts
No one will vote for a candidate with no governing experience on the basis on a single issue. And it's not true that nothing good can happen until we enact his package of election reforms.
Progressive Breakfast
China Currency Plummets China's currency devalues again. AP: "On Wednesday, the yuan dropped another 1.6 percent ... The People’s Bank of China promised Tuesday to keep the exchange rate 'basically stable,' but Wednesday’s decline prompted suggestions the yuan is...
What China's Currency Devaluation Means
China is lowering the value of its currency to boost its economic growth by supporting its exporters. China does what China does, for China. The U.S. should do what the U.S. needs to do, for the U.S.
The Big Jeb Bush Charter School Lie
As the ranks of Florida charter schools have swollen, the pathway out of poverty these schools were supposed to provide now looks more like a detour to exploitation and profit-making.
