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A Sweet New Century for America’s Most Privileged
The United States ended the 20th century on a roll — for the rich. Between 1973 and 2000, the nation’s most prosperous 1 percent tripled their incomes, after taking inflation into account. The even more prosperous top tenth of that 1 percent did quite a bit better....
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WH Claims Migrant Families "Ineligible" For Reunification Trump officials: Nearly half of young migrants ineligible to reunite with parents. WaPo: "The Trump administration has released more than half of the youngest children separated from their parents at the...
Kavanaugh Would Advance DeVos’s Religious Agenda for Schools
Immediately after Betsy DeVos took over as U.S. Secretary of Education, numerous education policy experts expressed doubts she'd have much success in enacting her well-documented agenda to impose her brand of Christian religion on public schools and direct more public...
How ‘Janus’ Will Boost Income Inequality in America
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision against workers in the Janus vs. AFSCME case surprised no one who pays attention to America’s highest judicial panel. Every analyst following the case expected the Supremes to rule against America’s public sector unions. And that’s...
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Trump Trade War Rolls Out Unchecked Why nothing seems to be stopping Trump’s trade war. WaPo: "President Trump is remaking the global trade order without significant political resistance or penalty, unchecked by a largely compliant Congress and bolstered by the...
How Tariffs Play In To Trump’s Xenophobic Agenda
In early March, President Trump announced steel tariffs as part of a protectionist, anti-China economic strategy. Since then, he's put tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese products, and threatens to sanction $200 billion more. Some progressives support these tariffs on...
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Trump Insults NATO Allies Trump calls alliance ‘delinquent’ on military spending. NYT: "President Trump met NATO’s secretary general and criticized alliance members on defense and energy policy. President Trump is in Brussels for the start of a seven-day, three-nation...
After an 'Educator Spring,' Teachers Storm Elections
For Progressives, the stunning upset victory by first-time congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over a prominent incumbent candidate in New York seems to be a sign that a wave of change coming in the midterm elections. But a perhaps bigger, clearer sign of...
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Trump SCOTUS Pick Kavanaugh Supports Shielding President Brett Kavanaugh opposed abortion rights, supports shielding president from scrutiny. NPR: "Over a dozen years as a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., Brett Kavanaugh has weighed in on...
Billionaire Wolves in Workers’ Clothing
Multimillionaire Bruce Rauner, the Republican Governor of Illinois, just couldn’t wait to tell his state's workers the U.S. Supreme Court had given them what he considered a gift. Within hours of the court’s ruling in the Janus case, Rauner emailed Illinois state...
