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Will Marriage Equality Opponents Take Us Back To The "Green Book" Era?
As the Supreme Court takes up marriage equality again, conservatives are preparing for a likely landmark ruling by trying to bring back a phrase that once haunted black families: "We don't serve your kind here."
Here Is Proof That Conservatives Actually Hate Markets
Given a choice between the market law of supply and demand and their hatred of our government, conservatives choose hatred of government over free markets every time.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama v. Warren Over TPP Obama criticizes Warren on TPP during MSNBC interview. Time quotes: "We’re allies on a whole host of issues. But she’s wrong on this ... [She] is out there saying things like this about the trade agreement: ‘It’s going to help the rich get...
The Surprise Issue of the 2016 Election?
Will Hillary Clinton embrace her party's growing call to increase Social Security benefits? It's not an extreme idea, or even a particularly “leftist” one. In fact, it was a key part of the Republican platform – in 1956.
Low-Wage Federal Contractors To Strike Wednesday
Through privatization and contracting the U.S. Government has become the country's biggest low-wage job creator, funding over 2 million poverty jobs.
'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness' Demands $15 an Hour
Signing the 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act into law, FDR rightly said “no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages has any right to continue in this country.” Let's make it so.
How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers’ Lives Hell
America’s “flexible labor market” is the envy of business leaders and policy makers the world over. There’s only one problem. The new flexibility doesn’t allow working people to live their lives.
How California Flipped The Education-Reform Script
At least one state seems to have missed the war on public schools: California. Could it be that California has found an alternative to the “reform” path that has created so much discontent?
Fast Tracking Democracy to Hell
With elected officials excluded from TPP talks, details of the deal deliberately shrouded in secrecy and free traders demanding lawmakers disregard the deal’s effects on constituents by Fast Tracking it, this process condemns democracy.
Progressive Breakfast
Progressives Rip Fast-Track (But Where's The Tea Party?) Populism2015 rally against fast-track puts pressure on Democrats. Washington Examiner: 'Thank you for lying to us,' said Tefere Gebre, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, during a noon...
