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Why the 'Ideas Primary' Matters
U.S. presidential contests may seem never-ending, but if the debate is about policy - instead of personality - is that such a bad thing? The 2020 presidential campaign began long before the midterms ended. Reporters have already started covering the gaggle of...
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White House Digs In For A Shutdown Into Spring Trump admin planning for even longer shutdown. WaPo: "White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has pressed agency leaders to provide him with a list of the highest-impact programs that will be jeopardized if the...
Could Elizabeth Warren Be The Next President?
Over the past ten years, I’ve written hundreds of articles on topics from Medicare For All, voter suppression, Constitutional law, to Trump’s gold-plated toilet. None has generated more excitement than an article I wrote in December, 2014, urging Elizabeth...
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L.A. Teachers Win Smaller Classes, Better Pay L.A. teachers end six-day strike after the majority approve contract deal. CNBC: "L.A. teachers overwhelmingly approved a new contract Tuesday and planned to return to the classroom after a six-day strike over funding and...
What LA Teachers Tell Us About Rising Inequality
Back during the 1960s and 1970s, in cities, suburbs, and small towns across the United States, teacher strikes made headlines on a fairly regular basis. Teachers in those years had a variety of reasons for walking out. They struck for the right to bargain. They struck...
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Shutdown Threatens Food Safety Health risks rise as shutdown hits second month. Forbes: "The government shutdown is threatening the health of millions of Americans, increasing the risk for harm as the partial closure of key federal agencies enters its second month,...
The Indignity of Work Without Pay
In the midst of the longest government shutdown in history, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this week launched a “Dignity of Work” listening tour. The Democratic senator who just won reelection by nearly seven points in the red state of Ohio explained the concept to...
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Thousands More Migrant Children Separated From Families Family separation may have hit thousands more migrant children than reported. NYT: "The Trump administration most likely separated thousands more children from their parents at the Southern border than was...
Organizing To Win Governing Power
As we enter a perilous period in American history, with Donald Trump’s bottomless insecurity fueling white supremacy and fascism on the one hand and environmental Armageddon on the other, there is an opening of historic proportions for mass revolutionary organizing....
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Government Shutdown Damages Economy Shutdown will be worse for economy than first thought, White House says. NPR: "The partial government shutdown is inflicting far greater damage on the U.S. economy than the Trump administration previously estimated, the White House...
