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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...
Progressive Breakfast
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...
Progressive Breakfast
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...
Progressive Breakfast
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...
Have the Rich Always Laughed at Stiff Taxes?
The guardians of our conventional wisdom on taxing the rich have messed up — and they know it. They slacked off. They started believing their own tripe. Average Americans, they assumed, would never ever smile on proposals to raise tax rates on the richest among us....
Progressive Breakfast
Selma Activists Demand Voting Rights After 54 years, the fight for voting rights in Selma is ongoing, organizers say. USA Today: "Fifty-four years after the brutal beating of black civil rights protesters in Alabama catalyzed the passage of sweeping voting rights...
Democrats Need to Think Big for 2020
There is a dizzying array of potential presidential nominees for Democratic primary voters to choose from—so many that they won’t even fit on one debate stage. But there is one basic choice the party will have to make: Will it nominate someone based on perceived...
Gritty Trade Negotiations
It took grit to get this far. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer explained that to Congress last week. So, he said, no one in the administration is backing down now. They’ve managed to confront Beijing, a trade renegade, and do it with a powerful tool that...
