by Robert Borosage | Apr 13, 2018 | Blog
“Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” tweeted Donald Trump when he threatened to slap tariffs on China and other nations he accused of “assaulting our country” last month. Stock traders were spooked as China promised to retaliate. Commentators across the political...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 13, 2018 | Blog
Remember the Republicans’ claim last year that their $1.5 trillion tax scam, slashing rates for the rich and corporations would magically pay for itself? Here is how that works: a rich guy walks into a Mercedes-Benz dealership, gets behind the wheel of a $112,400 GP...
by Miles Mogulescu | Apr 13, 2018 | Blog
It’s starting to look like a credible scenario that an increasingly unhinged Donald Trump might start a war, fire special counsel Mueller, and then argue, along with his Republican allies, that you can’t impeach a wartime President/Commander in Chief without...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 12, 2018 | Blog
One of the more interesting stories about the recent release of scores on the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress (aka. The Nation's Report Card) is not about the scores themselves but the way conservative education policy operatives are spinning them. The...
by Tara Raghuveer | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog
The Fair Housing Act, passed fifty years ago today, was a critical victory of the Civil Rights era and an effort to address generations of systemic racism in housing policy. The law intended to prohibit discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog
The momentum of this spring's teacher uprising is growing, as Oklahoma teachers extend their walkout into a second week and teachers in Kentucky and Arizona are increasingly eager for some kind of disruptive action. It's too early to gage the full impact of this...
