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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...
Progressive Breakfast
Rep. Cummings Plans More Oversight Of Trump Democrats in U.S. Congress take aim at Trump with multiple probes. Reuters: "In addition to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and other federal prosecutors, several U.S. congressional committees are pursuing investigations...
It’s Not Enough to Elect Progressives: Movements Must Have a Role in Governing
The 2020 presidential election, for many of us, will be the fight of our lifetime. We need a president who will take bold action on the issues shaping the lives of people in the multiracial working class. Design by Matt Whit That means building an economy that works...
Activists Ask Candidates Where They Stand on Good Jobs, Sustainable Growth and Economic Justice
Suddenly Americans are debating big ideas that used to be off the table. New ways to raise taxes on the rich and big corporations have been proposed by candidates Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. A Medicare-style public health system to expand...
Progressive Breakfast
Cohen Testifies Trump Is Racist, Conman, Cheat The Trump Organization's coming "proctology exam". Axios: "Near the end of Michael Cohen's testimony yesterday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked the former fixer whether President Trump had ever run an insurance fraud....
Chicago Scores Major Victories for People's Politics
Here in Chicago, our beloved City by the Lake, the People’s Wave is gaining momentum. What began in Philadelphia and New York last November continues in Chicago, as more machine politicians fall by the wayside and voters choose an unprecedented number of progressive...
Progressive Breakfast
Jayapal Introduces Medicare For All Medicare For All bill unveiled: 'Complete transformation' of health care. NBC: "As the debate over Medicare For All heats up on the 2020 trail, House progressives are opening a new front in Congress with a detailed single-payer bill...
