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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.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Headlines Climate Summit Obama nudges China in U.N. climate summit address. NYT: "Declaring that the United States and China — the world’s two largest economies and largest polluters — bear a 'special responsibility to lead,' Mr. Obama said, 'That’s what big...
Who Gets Rich Harvesting Burger King and the American Economy?
As fast-food workers across the country strike for decent pay, Burger King is still preparing to abandon the US as their home country. How does a burger company get flipped like this and who gets rich when it happens?
How Capping Carbon Can Create Millions Of Jobs
It's important to know we can save the planet without much, if any, net cost. It's also important to know we can save the planet and create millions of jobs, if we are willing to pay for it.
After People’s Climate March, Thousands Re-Kindle Occupy Wall Street
On Monday, a day after an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 people participated in the People’s Climate March in New York, a smaller group of activists set out to shut down Wall Street.
