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Now Even Some GOP Members Reject Fast-Tracking A Bad Trade Deal
Giant corporations are asking Congress to give up its constitutional obligation to consider and amend a trade treaty that requires our country to give up its sovereignty. Many Republicans don't appear to be falling for this one.
Sorry, Nicholas Kristof, There's Still No Proof School Reform Helps
Claims that the latest results of the National Assessment of Education Progress, a k a “the Nation’s Report Card,” suggest that "school reform helps" are mistaken. What the results really reveal matter more, but are overlooked.
Republicans Feign Concern About the Health of Health-Care Reform
For years the GOP fought all attempts to provide health insurance to 47 million uninsured Americans without it. Now GOPers are outraged a website is making it difficult for Americans to buy insurance!
Something's Happening Here: The Minimum-Wage Wave
Voters in the state of New Jersey and the city of Tacoma, Washington voted to increase the minimum wage in last week’s election. Something's happening here that can't be ignored.
Progressive Breakfast
America In 40-Year Slump The American economy is in a "40-year slump," chronicles The American Prospect's Harold Meyerson: "Since 1947, Americans at all points on the economic spectrum had become a little better off with each passing year ... [Then in] 1974, wages...
Imagine Democracy
"We the People." How many of us have really thought through the implications of these three words? Can people today even imagine a government that is on the side of We the People?
The Shamelessness of Bankers
Some recent remarks by William Dudley, President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, are important. “There is evidence of deep-seated cultural and ethical failures at many large financial institutions," he said. And he was being civil.
Counting the Dollars the Rich Want Uncounted
Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation's most fabulously privileged and everyone else.
The Senate Passes ENDA. What's Next?
The Employment Nondiscrimination Act passed in the Senate on Thursday, in a historic 64-32 vote. America has never been closer to protecting LGBT workers from discrimination on the job. Here’s what needs to happen next.
Investment In Manufacturing And Infrastructure Is Seed Corn Of Economy
Selling a country's seed corn can make you a huge pile of cash, and you'll have a private jet to fly to your own private island so you don't have to worry about what comes next.
