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Obama's Climate Plan: Is It Good Enough?
Fault lines are emerging in response to the administration's Clean Power Plan, the EPA rule designed to cut carbon emissions from power plants 32 percent by 2030. How can we make sense of it, and what should activists do next?
Puerto Rico's Creditors in Denial and Its People in the Crosshairs
Because Congress won’t let Puerto Rico declare bankruptcy, the island’s creditors need to come to terms with the futility of austerity and accept that their money is not coming back.
The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
Political insiders don’t see that the biggest political phenomenon in America today is a revolt against the “ruling class” of insiders that have dominated Washington for more than three decades.
Why the TPP Trade Talks Stalled, and What We'll Have to Watch For Next
TPP is not dead. There is still time to squeeze this through Congress before the real Presidential campaign season begins if they can complete TPP in August.
How Our Inequality Is Corrupting 'Success'
In any society that winks as great stashes of wealth amass at the top, philosopher Elizabeth Anderson reminds us, the wealthy will sooner or later see most of the rest of us as failures.
Progressive Breakfast
Landmark Rule To Save Climate Obama to announce final EPA climate regs on power plants today. WSJ: "...the EPA sets the first-ever limits on greenhouse gases from power plants, requiring a 32% cut in emissions by 2030 from 2005 levels. The target is ambitious,...
Will Black Lives Matter At the Republican Presidential Debate?
A new generation of activists have sharpened the view of the threshold candidates must cross to earn the vote of African Americans, and once again Republican candidates are showing themselves incapable of rising to the challenge.
Wingnut Week In Review: The Lion King
A beloved lion named Cecil was lured out of his sanctuary in Zimbabwe, and killed by an American hunter. The world mourned, and wingnuts roared that the lion’s death drew attention away from their scam to bring down Planned Parenthood.
56 Organizations Unite In Opposition To Schumer Corporate Tax Plan
"The proposal appears to fail two principles of corporate tax reform," says a letter authored by Americans for Tax Fairness: It would not increase revenue and it would encourage more shifting of jobs and profits offshore.
Tobacco "Carve-Out" Dispute Tells Us What We Need To Know About TPP
"NAFTA-style" "trade" agreements like TPP contain "investor-protection" provisions that allow corporations to sue governments for passing laws and making regulations that might limit their expected profits.
