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Voters Will Oppose Politicians Who Support "NAFTA-Style" Trade Deals
Ask people what they think of NAFTA and you'll learn that people get it. People absolutely hate "NAFTA-style" trade deals. People are voting based on this – when given the chance.
What's Wrong With the NFL is What's Wrong With America
Sexism. A culture of violence. Untrustworthy leadership. Runaway inequality. ... We’re not talking about America's top corporations. We're talking about the NFL.
Poll Shows How Democrats Can Win With A Public Education Agenda
Voters want candidates who will support classroom teachers and oppose funding cuts to public schools. Democrats can make support for public education a winning issue.
Progressive Breakfast
Republicans Have Hard Time Buying Senate Democrats holding their own in Senate TV ad spending. Center for Public Integrity: "The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ruled the TV airwaves last week, even trumping the conservative super PACs and Koch...
Bill Clinton's Corporate Fantasy
Bill Clinton argues that corporate CEOs will soon care more about employees and society than profits. But today's CEO's are cashing out their own companies' futures to line their pockets. Sweet dreams won't change that.
Why Now Is The Time To Tackle Poverty
Every couple of generations, the stars align to create the potential for monumental, transformative social change. It turns out we're in just such a moment when it comes to tackling poverty in the United States.
Let's Replace Hawk Squawks On The Fed With Voices Of The People
Two "inflation hawks" on the Federal Reserve's open market committee, Charles Plosser and Richard Fisher, will step down from the board in early 2015. That's a chance for working people to have their own representatives.
The Extortion Game Corporations Play To Cut Their Tax Bill
Extortion is the practice of obtaining something of value through fear, using force, threats or coercion. What does it mean when the owners of big companies say they will move if we don't cut their taxes? This is extortion.
Anger Is Still Privileged In "Post-Racial" America
The New York Times caught hell for an article characterizing television producer Shonda Rhimes as an “angry black woman,” but anger is still privileged in “post-racial” America.
An Ayn Rand-Themed Libertarian Utopia Was a Fraud. No Surprise There.
Rand's work is shallow econo-porn, part Kraft-Ebbing and part Horatio Alger, possessing neither coherence nor philosophical depth. She writes that Galt’s Gulch represents “the mind on strike,” but it’s more like a work slowdown.
