by Robert Borosage | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
Newly installed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch uttered not a word during Monday’s oral arguments in the case of Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, but he didn’t need to. The widespread assumption is that he will provide the fifth vote in a 5-4 decision to scorn decades...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 27, 2018 | Blog
Donald Trump’s chaotic menace has been met with a fierce resistance movement that has rallied to the defense of the Dreamers, Muslims, women, and the environment. This movement has lifted Democrats in special elections and could enable them to take back the House of...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 9, 2018 | Blog
Wages have been stagnant through two official “recoveries” in this century, under both Democratic and Republican presidents. This week, beneath the stock-market gyrations, the mechanics that shackle the average worker’s wages were exposed once more—not in Donald...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 7, 2018 | Blog
As both parties gear up for the 2018 elections, Democrats harbor high hopes for a wave election that will take back the Congress, put the Senate in play, and revive their party's fortunes in state legislatures across the country. All Democrats agree a clear statement...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 1, 2018 | Blog
Donald Trump’s State of the Union drenched his audience in insipid invocations of unity. Laboriously reading from a teleprompter, for 90 minutes he celebrated family, faith, law and order, the military, our veterans, the national anthem, “one team, one people, one...