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Tell Boehner: Stop "Throwing Spaghetti," Renew Unemployment Insurance
Call 661-BOEHNER and tell House Speaker John Boehner to stop the excuses and put help for the long-term unemployed up for a vote. And join today's "Twitter storm" at 2 p.m. Eastern to #RenewUI.
The Terrible Fear of Paying the Poor Too Much
Republicans’ fear of paying too much is terrible. Not because of GOP angst. No, because it causes underpaid workers to suffer. Because it means Republicans will continue to blockade efforts to resolve growing, corrosive income inequality.
Progressive Breakfast
The Nation Goes All-In For Earth Day Mark Hertsgaard explains "Why TheNation.com Today Is All About Climate": "...The Nation is marking Earth Day 2014 with special, wall-to-wall coverage of the climate challenge ... Growing a larger grassroots movement is vital...
Elites Discover So-Called "Free Trade" Is Killing Economy, Middle Class
The New York Times gets it right: It's time to "improve the ground rules of global trade." In the face of overwhelming evidence of the damage done by NAFTA-style trade deals, could the tide of elite opinion be changing?
Five of the Worst Cities to Be a Renter Unless You're Fabulously Wealthy
As millions lost their homes many of the houses were and are being bought up by large investors. And what do these investors want? They want rent – and lots of it.
The Right’s New Racial Math: A Demented View Of Nonwhite Voters
Once you let those illegitimate votes count, Real Americans are denied their franchise. In fact, counting the votes of African Americans and Latinos is the real vote suppression.
The Gulf - Four Years Later.
This past Sunday was the fourth anniversary of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
The oil isn't gone. The environment isn't restored. Residents' lives aren't back to so-called “normal.” Yet, BP claims that they fixed the Gulf.
Progressive Breakfast
Trade Deal Focus Of Presidential Asia Visit Obama to push for trade deal during Asia trip. W. Post: "The United States and Japan have been engaged in intense negotiations for months — and as recently as Friday — over how to resolve their trade differences in the...
Can Democracy Tame Plutocracy?
We are headed into a reckoning. We know that the rules are rigged in Washington, as the powerful protect their interests from the many. The question is can the people take back their democracy?
Wingnut Week in Review: None Dare Call It Terrorism
What do you call it when an anti-Semite and white supremacist goes on a shooting spree at not one, but two Jewish facilities, killing three people? If you’re the U.S. media you call it anything, but terrorism.
