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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...
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Both Parties Face Leadership Struggles Both parties face leadership struggles as House returns. NYT: "The House returns from its July Fourth recess this week in a state of remarkable uncertainty, with both Democrats and Republicans facing open questions about their...
The Future of "American" Is Up To Us
We should be skeptical of the motivation and messengers behind calls for civility. We hear people say that what is happening to migrants in the United States right now is un-American. I wish that were true. Sadly, American history is full of periods where children of...
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#FamiliesBelongTogether Protests in 50 States In 50 states, hundreds of thousands protest immigration policy, with focus on midterms. USA Today: "Hundreds of thousands of people turned out from coast-to-coast Saturday in "Families Belong Together" rallies to protest...
I Stand With Migrants, So Should You
Jeremiah Jaynes, a leader with Down Home North Carolina, a People’s Action affiliate, delivered these comments before fifty thousand people at the #FamiliesBelongTogether march in Washington, DC on June 30, 2018. Click on the image below to hear the speech. My name is...
