by Richard Eskow | Mar 12, 2014 | Education
We recently interviewed Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, on "The Zero Hour" on the school crisis currently taking place in Newark, N.J. The Newark story is part of a larger pattern in which Republican governors override local...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 10, 2014 | The 2015 Budget
Republican House Speaker John Boehner calls President Obama’s new budget “irresponsible.” A New York Times headline calls it a “populist wish list.” But it’s neither of those things. The White House’s fiscal proposal is a cautious foray out of the president’s...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 4, 2014 | Blog
It's now been almost two days since the last Academy Award was handed out, which makes it an old story in today's hyper-accelerated news cycle. But here's a final observation - a question, really - before Sunday night's relatively unmemorable gala fades from memory...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2014 | Progressive Vision
Has the American left ceased to exist as a viable political force by surrendering its power to a corporatized Democratic Party? That’s the argument put forward by political scientist Adolph Reed Jr., first in an essay for Harper’s magazine and then in a televised...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 27, 2014 | Trade
If you take the king’s shilling, says the old saying, then you do the king’s bidding. So what happens when you take 100 million of them? Here’s one possible answer: You negotiate trade deals like NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the new pact that...
