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Here's What '60 Minutes' Should Have Reported About Infrastructure
Everyone understood that maintaining and modernizing our country's infrastructure created good-paying jobs with benefits. Republicans now oppose this because it creates good-paying jobs with benefits.
No Justice In Ferguson
"The system worked" quite well for those for whom it is designed to work. We should refuse, however, to call that "justice." Here is what we must demand.
Do Americans Really Want Hillary Clinton's 'Vital Center'?
Public opinion right now actually is tilted fairly leftward, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released this weekend as Hillary Clinton was advocating a cautious brand of populism in New York City.
Seven Years After: Why This Recovery Is Still a Turkey
December will mark the seventh anniversary of the recession brought on by the collapse of the housing bubble. Usually an economy would be fully recovered after seven years. Unfortunately, this is not close to being the case now.
Progressive Breakfast
GOP Struggles To Control Agenda Republicans rail against immigration action, still lack plan. Bloomberg: "Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Republicans are instead weighing whether to use 'the power of the...
Uncle Sam Needs Some Better Nephews
The kingpins of Congress have spent years carving tax loopholes that help America’s CEOs fleece the federal treasury. Now these kingpins are pushing a corporate tax ‘reform’ that ignores the loopholes.
Keep On Steppin', Mr. President
President Obama's executive action on immigration has been greeted with the expected threats by Republicans. He would best ignore the noise and keep on acting.
Despite Electoral Defeat, Rev. Barber Touts "Forward Together" Triumph
With a new book and lessons from the Senate race in North Carolina, Rev. William Barber II is undaunted in his effort to build the Moral Monday movement that shook the state's political establishment.
Wingnut Week in Review: Punk'd By The President
This week, President Obama punk’d the GOP on immigration, leaving them caught between Latino voters and their wingnut base. And there’s not much they can do about it. Thursday night, President Obama executed one of the most brilliant moves ever ignored by...
Walmart Says Its Element TVs Are “Assembled In USA” – But They Aren’t
Walmart is running commercials about how great they are for American workers. Wait … isn’t the “Walmart model” of selling cheap goods from China the reason everyone is so desperate for American-made goods?
