by Robert Borosage | Jun 4, 2017 | Blog
Bernie Sanders is in England for sold-out speaking engagements to boost Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party’s candidate for prime minister in the snap election scheduled for June 8. Corbyn is surging in British polls, and running a populist campaign that pledges radical...
by Robert Borosage | May 31, 2017 | Blog
The Congressional Budget Office has confirmed what was already apparent: The revised House Republican health-care bill will still deprive millions of Americans - 23 million in the CBO estimate - of health insurance. Senate Republicans are devising their plan in...
by Robert Borosage | May 24, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump’s FY 2018 budget is, the White House admits, a “message document” - at best, a marker to begin negotiations. So what is the message this White House is sending? First, it raises a long, fat middle finger pointed at the working class voters who helped to...
by Robert Borosage | May 18, 2017 | Blog
Democratic Party luminaries and 2020 presidential mentionables gathered this week for an “ideas conference” organized by the Center for American Progress, the Democratic establishment’s premier think tank. Its stated purpose was to focus not on “what could have been,”...
by Robert Borosage | May 12, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump has ginned up a continuous din in his first four months as president, with each outrage or grotesquerie immediately followed by another. Amid the furors, it is easy to lose track of the key standard by which Trump will be judged by his key voters: his...