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...
by Miles Mogulescu | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog
If peace diplomacy were an Olympic sport, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, won the Gold Medal hands down, while Vice President Mike Pence crashed and burned. And that’s a good thing for the possibility of world peace. It increases the...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog
“Childhood,” said the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, “is the kingdom where nobody dies.” In this country, childhood is something we no longer value. As of this writing, 17 people are dead at a high school in Broward County, Florida. The shooter used an AR-15...
by Bernie Horn | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog
School “reformers” have, for decades, promoted the idea of extending the number of school days per year, from the current norm of 180 days to 190 or 200. Yet for all their talk, there has been extremely little evidence that two or four additional weeks of school would...
