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Congress' Transportation Stall Is Our Chance to Mobilize
This time short-term congressional paralysis offers the chance to prevent a long-term disaster. Progressives gets three months to break the momentum of a corporate tax giveaway and get a better transportation bill.
Creeping Out of the Foxhole
At long last Republican presidential hopefuls crept out of their foxholes, where they’d been cowering and maintaining radio silence, to attack Donald Trump. How noble of them.
Sandra Bland, My Father, and Me
For African Americans like Sandra Bland, simply asserting our citizenship, or expressing mild annoyance as our rights are violated, can be deadly. In almost 400 years, that much hasn’t changed.
What Happened To Rex Henry In A Philadelphia, Mississippi Jail Cell?
Rexdale Henry, a Mississippi Choctaw Native American activist, was arrested on July 9 for failing to pay an old traffic fine. He was found dead in his cell on July 14. That is almost all we know.
Progressive Breakfast
Congress Poised To Pass 3-Month Transportation Bill Senate bends to House on transportation bill. The Hill: "The House will vote Wednesday on a three-month highway-spending bill ... Senate leaders signaled they will approve the three-month extension before the end of...
Did Obama Administration Downplay Malaysia Slavery To Grease Trade Deal?
Cheap labor is the whole point of our corporate-rigged, NAFTA-style trade agreements. But tolerating slavery? Really? Unfortunately, it looks like that's what is happening with the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The Money Primary
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s corporate-friendly Citizens United ruling, running for America’s highest office in our democratic republic has been perverted into a gold rush.
Anti-Presidential: Money Grubbing, Community Disdaining Candidates
The GOP believes individuals like The Donald attain riches through their own guts and gumption with no aid from community, country or inherited wealth. It’s just that when The Donald expresses their credo, he ignores their shinola.
Progressive Breakfast
House, Senate Dig In On Transportation Bill Senate nears final vote on highway trust fund bill. The Hill: "Senators voted 62-32 [Monday night] on a procedural vote to end debate ... The move sets a 30-hour clock until lawmakers can take a final vote ... House...
Haunted by Student Debt to the Grave
Close to 200,000 people on Social Security are having their Social Security checks garnished by student debt creditors. It's time to forgive education loans for people on Social Security.
