by Guest Writer | Jan 23, 2014 | Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Ron Carver Many hundreds of thousands of Americans saw their good working-class jobs disappear once NAFTA took effect. And millions of Mexicans lost their ability to live off the land after cheap factory farmed corn from the United States displaced their crops in...
by Guest Writer | Jan 20, 2014 | Conservatism, Democracy, Progressive Vision
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Note: This is an excerpt of an acceptance speech given by Rev. Barber on November 6, 2013, when he received the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award from the Campaign for America's Future. During this speech, he announced the...
by Guest Writer | Jan 20, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision
By Bob Lord As we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s 85th birthday, we’ve all come to know his dream. Above all else, he dreamed that one day this nation would rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men...