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Trump Budget To Slash Social Spending The real national emergency is not at the border. CNN: "Unlike Donald Trump's manufactured crisis and his vanity wall at the Mexico border, severe income inequality and economic greed are true national emergencies. Still, the...
Putting Billionaires in Their Place
A good chunk of the American people, our super rich now understand, would rather billionaires not exist. Our more pugnacious plutocrats have greeted this growing anti-billionaire perspective with predictable right-wing scorn. But some daring conservatives are using the successes of Scandinavian nations — egalitarian pace-setters like Sweden and Norway —to rationalize grand private fortunes. These nations, they point out, actually have more billionaires per capita than the United States. How can that be? The story behind the numbers.
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Why International Women's Day Isn't Going Away Why International Women’s Day isn’t going away. NYT: 'After a series of historic firsts and long-overdue breakthroughs, 2018 was called “the Year of the Woman.' A record 36 women won seats in the United States House of...
Progressives Must Agree to Disagree About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Progressives and Democrats must agree to disagree among themselves about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Otherwise, they could split apart in mutual recriminations. This could lead to losing the chance to regain political power and implement a progressive agenda...
Disasters Don’t Discriminate, but Rural Recovery Does
Last Sunday, I was driving home up highway 169 in Lee County, Alabama. We decided not stop at a local business in the countryside, to stay ahead of a tornado in the area. Ten minutes later, that business was destroyed by 170 mile-per-hour winds. Trees turned into...
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Investigations Pave Path To Impeachment House Democrats poised to take the baton from Mueller, move toward impeachment. NBC: "Washington is waiting with bated breath for special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into the Trump operation's ties to...
Rabble Rousing for Righteous Retirement
Standing out among the bald pates and grey hairs crowding into a Congressional hearing room on Thursday morning with “Protect our Pensions” stickers will be 26-year-old Ben Trusnik. The son, grandson and great-grandson of labor union members, Ben will travel to...
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GOP Packs Courts With Conservative Judges McConnell preps new nuclear option to speed Trump judges. Politico: "President Donald Trump’s stream of judges is about to become a torrent. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP caucus have long prioritized...
Electing Movement Leaders in Chicago
The wave of victories by a new generation of progressive leaders in Chicago's Mayoral and City Council elections mark the most impressive results for movement candidates in the city since the 1980s. Candidates supported by grassroots organizing groups and unions won...
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Congress Ready To Rebuke Trump's 'Emergency' Congress on verge of rejecting Trump's border emergency. Reuters: "The U.S. Congress was on the verge of issuing a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump over his declaration of an emergency at the border with Mexico, with...
