by Tim Wilkins | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog
Reverend William Barber and Dr. Liz Theoharis speak in Memphis, Tennessee about the "new and unsettling force" of Dr. Martin Luther King's life and legacy, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination. Barber and Theoharis are co-chairs of the New...
by Tim Wilkins | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog
Eight years: that’s how long an American president can serve, and it’s the age at which children start to solve problems on their own. It’s also how long we’ve had President Obama’s signature reform of health care, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Obama achieved goals...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog
Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, recently wrote a column entitled “Liberal World Order, R.I.P.” Haass sees the post-World War II order succumbing to centrifugal forces. He foresees a fragmented and chaotic world made up of “regional...
by James Haslam | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
Last week, I found myself where no parent ever wants to be: in a hospital emergency room, next to my big guy – he’s 7. On the way to school, he’d experienced severe abdominal pain and bleeding, so we rushed to the hospital. It happened so fast that we feared the...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
Shale oil and gas, now fracked from deep underground in two dozen states, is celebrated for delivering energy independence to the United States. But that goal can’t truly be achieved if America depends on China, Korea, even Brazil for the steel vital to drilling....
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
Back in the 1980s, the decade that saw researchers start detailing America’s increasing concentration of income and wealth, flacks for the emerging Reagan economic order disdainfully dismissed the significance of the alarming new data. The United States isn’t getting...
