by Jeff Bryant | Feb 22, 2018 | Blog
This time is different. After the horrendous shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students are taking over the debate on gun control that politicians in both parties have so horribly botched for decades. The protests are not confined to the...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 21, 2018 | Blog
A popular narrative today is that we live in a country which is deeply divided. And the Democratic Party, we are told, is nearly as split as the nation itself. But chatter in the press and social media may overlook some fundamental points of agreement about changes we...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 20, 2018 | Blog
St. Paul teachers want to do "phenomenal things" for their students. At least that's what Nick Faber of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers tells me. But what's been holding back him and his fellow educators are the same obstacles to progress in many of our...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 19, 2018 | Blog
"America's Harvest Box." That's what the Trump administration called its plan to substitute prepackaged, low-quality processed foods for some of the food assistance currently being received by an estimated 46 million people (based on numbers for 2015, the last year...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog
A favorite media tactic of right-wing policymakers is to claim they are the victims whenever those who've had their civil rights or their political voices stifled by their policies make grievances known, and advocate for change. It's a clever way to turn blatant...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog
The administration’s infrastructure proposal, released this week, bears no resemblance to Candidate Trump’s campaign pledges. It shamelessly shirks the funding burden, and stops government construction projects that serve the public good. Candidate Trump boasted that...
