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Obama's Climate Plan Taking Shape Details of upcoming carbon cap rule emerge. NYT: "President Obama will use his executive authority to cut carbon emissions from the nation’s coal-fired power plants by up to 20 percent, according to people familiar with his plans, and...
Education Accountability We Can Believe In
For years, education policy has been obsessed with outcomes like scores on standardized tests while focusing less on the inputs into our children’s schooling. It’s time for alternatives to this mindless direction.
Pollster Celinda Lake's New Populism Warning
There are Republican candidates and pollsters "who get this new populism," Celinda Lake told The New Populism Conference last week. If Democrats don't effectively align themselves with the populist mood, Republicans will.
Does Inequality Just Happen? Or Is It The Result Of Choices?
Wouldn't a country run of, by and for We the People set things up to benefit We the People – and not just a few already-wealthy people at the expense of the rest of us, our country, and our economy?
Cut-Throat Capitalism: Welcome To the Gig Economy
The media use exciting words like "creativity" and "adaptability" to describe the shift away from steady, full-time work to a gig economy of freelancers and short-term contracts. But it looks quite different, if you're actually stuck in it.
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Michigan Raises The Minimum Wage Under pressure, GOP governor of Michigan signs minimum wage hike. AP: "Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation Tuesday to raise the state’s minimum wage by 25 percent gradually over the next four years to $9.25 an hour, as...
Elizabeth Warren and The New Populist Challenge
Led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a new populist challenge is emerging that is already influencing the national debate in 2014, and will have a major impact in 2016, whether or not the senator is ultimately drafted to run.
Rigged Trade Deals: "Our Job Is To Notice"
Democrats and Republicans pay no price for their robotic votes for trade deal after trade deal, hoping no one will notice. Our job is to notice, turn up the heat and make them pay a price.
Who Deserves Health Care?
Republicans revere the military for all its traditional masculine virtues. So, veterans deserve health care. Poor people (who are not veterans or elderly white people) do not. This is the simple equation that guides their philosophy.
Obama Bets The Future Of His Party On Solving The Climate Crisis [VIDEO]
Once Obama proposes his climate regulations, we won't be debating the science. We will be debating whether prices will spike or jobs will be lost. And a party can lose it all over that. Ask Australia's Labor Party.
