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All Is Not Lost To Climate Catastrophe
Reeling from grim news about climate change, I took a break this summer to recharge my own batteries and see if today’s best speculative fiction writers could imagine us into a better future. There is a growing genre of climate science fiction, or “cli-fi,” which...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway ‘New’ NAFTA Fails Workers On Both Sides Of Border When an American corporation, GM or Nabisco or Carrier, builds a factory in Mexico, NAFTA protects the company from tariffs when it imports the Mexican-made cars or Oreos or furnaces back...
'New' NAFTA Fails Workers On Both Sides Of Border
Mickey Ray Williams keeps a Goodyear tire in his Gadsden, Ala., conference room. Made in Mexico and imported to Gadsden, that tire induces fear. It’s an Assurance All-Season tire. Those were developed at Goodyear’s Gadsden factory in 2014. Now some, or possibly all,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE The AMA Gets Out Of The Way Of #MedicareForAll In a major step forward in the fight for universal health care, the American Medical Association (AMA) has pulled out of a lobbying group that seeks to undermine the growing support for Medicare For All....
The AMA Gets Out Of The Way Of #MedicareForAll
In a major step forward in the fight for universal health care, the American Medical Association (AMA) has quietly pulled out of a lobbying group that seeks to undermine the growing support for Medicare For All. “The AMA has made the right - if overdue - call by...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-NY) We Win When We Are Genuine We win when we are genuine: That's how we know we're on the right side of history. You are making every single personal sacrifice if you're doing it right (as an elected official). You need to make...
We Win When We Are Genuine
We all want a new President – but at People’s Action, we know it will take a lot more than one candidate at the top to turn this country around. That’s why we’re recruiting and training more than 500 grassroots community leaders to run for elected office at every...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Robert Borosage Sowing Seeds Of Democratic Unity There’s nothing like the intervention of a true racist to provide a sense of proportion. The public dispute between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the group of four young, electric, progressive female...
Sowing Seeds Of Democratic Unity
Photo credit: office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi There’s nothing like the intervention of a true racist to provide a sense of proportion. The public dispute between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the group of four young, electric, progressive female legislators of...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Double Or Nothing On Infrastructure Bad news about infrastructure is as ubiquitous as potholes. Failures in a 108-year-old railroad bridge and tunnel cost New York commuters thousands of hours in delays. Illinois doesn’t regularly inspect,...
