by Richard Eskow | Mar 2, 2018 | Blog
Ben Carson, the Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, received some unwanted attention this week over a $31,000 dining room set that was ordered for his office, reportedly at his wife’s request. The average income for a rural household receiving rental...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 2, 2018 | Blog
In our deeply unequal age, we’ve become accustomed to talking about concepts like income and wealth, affluence and poverty. Researchers at the OECD, the developed world’s official economic research agency, would like to toss another concept into the inequality mix:...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog
Democratic Senators were positively "giddy," according to the New York Times, when President Donald Trump, during a live televised meeting, declared his strong support for gun control and urged Congress to pass a comprehensive bill that would expand background checks,...
by Hannah Gelder | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog
Eureka! I truly believe that talking with neighbors makes real change happen. Why? Because the only way we can reach deep into our society to change racism, sexism, and economic injustice is to awaken ordinary people to the power of their voices and votes. But the...
by Miles Mogulescu | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
The NRA and its politician servants have convinced much of the media, and with much of the public, that most gun control legislation - like banning civilian ownership of military-style assault weapons, or universal background checks - would violate the Second...
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...
