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"His Own Man's" Man: Jeb Bush and the Return of Wolfowitz
Their policies have led, not to development and democracy, but to chaos and collapse. Our global reputation as a just and democratic state – the “fourth power” of our principled beliefs – lies in tatters.
Progressive Breakfast
Republicans Governors Consider Taxes Some Republican governors pushing tax hikes to balance budgets. Bloomberg: "Governors in about 10 states, many led by Republicans, are proposing increases this year ... Several plans involve raising fuel taxes to pay for crumbling...
The 'Corinthian 15' Take A Stand By Calling A Student Loan Strike
The goal is to get the Department of Education to cancel their debt, along with that of all other current and former Corinthian College students. They hope that many more students rise up and join the fight.
Warmongers – Beyond Giuliani's Bile, The Real Threat
Rudolph Giuliani's slur against the president was vile, but the Republican and neoconservative chorus that is peddling fear and pumping for more war is truly dangerous.
High-Speed Rail Is High-Speed Growth We All Should Demand
As California's high-speed rail project proceeds, we should build pressure to bring the same promise of jobs and increased economic growth to other gridlocked areas of the country.
Wingnut Week In Review: American Jihad?
ISIS wants a holy war with America. Fox News and the wingnut brigade are aching to give them one. Will those who’ve learned nothing from history doom the rest of us to repeat it?
Misfortune 500: How One Economist Exposed a Dirty Corporate Secret
Economist William Lazonick is said to have "decoded the Rosetta Stone of America's economic decline" with his research on income inequality. Now he's predicting that things will get worse.
Memo To Civil Rights Activists: Testing Isn't Helping
The civil rights argument for annual testing continues to devolve into circular reasoning: that we need to test every poor black and brown child every year to see what their test scores are.
Progressive Breakfast
Walmart Goes To $10 An Hour Walmart raising its wages. NYT: "...all of its United States workers would earn at least $9 an hour by April and at least $10 by next February. Some labor advocates, however, who are demanding $15 an hour for service workers, called the...
Walmart Worker Victory Shows What We Can Win If We Keep Fighting
Credit goes to the campaigns launched by a number of grassroots organizations that for years have shone a light on the anti-worker policies that are endemic in big-box retailing, but especially Walmart.
