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Obama Administration Makes Malaysia Slavery Problem For TPP Disappear
The recent fast track rules said we can't sign "trade" agreements with countries that violate human rights. To get around this rule the administration is declaring the worst violators of human rights to be OK after all.
State Governments Continue An Assault On Public Schools
States are struggling to pass budgets, often because state leaders refuse to fund education. Some of the individual actions these state governments are taking are just atrocious.
Careful How You Attack Jeb
Jeb's not wrong to focus on the problem of underemployment, and it does Democrats no good to mock him when he does. Where Jeb is vulnerable is that he offers no serious solution to the problem.
Progressive Breakfast
Mass Moral Monday March for Voting Rights in NC Moral Mondays movement to rally in Winston-Salem at 5 PM Monday, urging federal courts to overturn North Carolina's voter suppression law. More from OurFuture.org's Joshua Ferrer: "In addition to implementing the...
Schumer Takes the Low Road to Fund a Transportation Bill
Democrats should be championing tax reforms that call on multinational corporations to pay more, not less, of their profits toward the infrastructure and services that support their profit-making.
Student Debt Movement Is Getting Democratic Candidates To Respond
Presidential candidate Martin O’Malley issued his debt-free college solution Wednesday, following on the heels of a proposal by candidate Bernie Sanders. This is a major coup for grassroots activists across the country.
"Our Selma": March in North Carolina for Voting Rights
Moral Mondays leader Rev. William Barber is calling the country to come to Winston-Salem, N.C. in a protest on Monday against "a crime against democracy and our most sacred constitutional value."
Walmart's Misleading Claims, Made In America
Walmart is aggressively highlighting its commitment to purchase an additional $250 billion worth of American-made goods by 2023. Here's how to avoid being fooled by the giant retailer’s rhetoric.
Much Worse In That Spending Bill Sidelined By Confederate Flag Dispute
The Interior appropriations bill would leave America’s rivers and lakes unprotected, and prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions.
Export-Import Bank Shut Down, China Gets The Business Instead
Republicans have shut down the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank as of midnight, July 1. Germany, Japan, China and many other countries have similar agencies. Now they will be picking up that business.
