by Dave Johnson | Jul 8, 2011 | Blog
In England people "know" many of the same false things that people here "know." Except in England the false things work against English working people instead of against American working people. I am in England this week and next and am enjoying some pub conversations...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 7, 2011 | Blog
To listen to what's coming out of Washington, D.C., these days is to realize that our elected officials are completely ignoring a deficit that threatens to devastate the American economy, and the lives of millions of Americans. No, not that deficit. I'm talking about...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 7, 2011 | Blog, Education
Down here on the ground in public schools, what school children, parents, and teachers are experiencing are the first tremors of what will likely be seismic shifts in the reality of our nation's education system. As teacher layoffs start to roll-out in Milwaukee, Los...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 7, 2011 | Blog
The Progressive Caucus, in a letter being sent to President Obama today, says any budget deal he agrees to that contains cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid won't get their votes. Given that any deal that President Obama agrees to is unlikely to win over...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog
Republicans won't take "Yes" for an answer in the debt ceiling negotiations. As conservative columnist David Brooks writes in the New York Times, this should be the "mother of all no brainers." Republicans have achieved everything they might have imagined at the...
