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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.
Progressive Breakfast
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.
Progressive Breakfast
Countdown To Climate Rules Upcoming climate regs may spark global response. NYT: "President Obama is expected to announce on Monday an Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s fleet of 600 coal-fired power plants, in a...
Making The “New Populism” A Reality: Lessons From The Conference
“We need more than just bumper sticker phrases,” Rev. William Barber II of the NAACP said at The New Populism Conference last week. It takes a vision – and a lot of hard work.
Why American Conservatives Are Suddenly Freaking Out About Guillotines
On the cover of American Spectator, vision arises from the collective unconscious of the rich. Angry citizens look on as a monocled fat-cat is led to a blood-soaked guillotine. Are they afraid the people’s patience is not endless?
Wingnut Week In Review: It Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Guy
This week saw a number of right-wingers being pulled up short, one way or another, including some of the biggest names in wingnuttia. For each wingnut up to his tinfoil hat in trouble of his own making, we can only say, “It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.”
