by Leo Gerard | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog
Early Wednesday morning, David Breckheimer, a United Steelworkers local union president at a Neenah, Wis. paper factory, was gathering the last of his gear for a snowmobiling vacation. At 7:45 a.m., less than two hours before he planned to leave, he got a call. It...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 2, 2018 | Blog
Despite his campaign promises to transform American education, President Donald Trump had almost nothing to say about the subject in his first State of the Union speech, and his controversial education secretary Betsy DeVos has not made national headlines for some...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 1, 2018 | Blog
Donald Trump’s State of the Union drenched his audience in insipid invocations of unity. Laboriously reading from a teleprompter, for 90 minutes he celebrated family, faith, law and order, the military, our veterans, the national anthem, “one team, one people, one...
by Chelsea White | Jan 31, 2018 | Blog
Chelsea White spoke at The State Of Our Union, a gathering of nine hundred women from fifty grassroots and national groups at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Jan. 30, 2018. My name is Chelsea White and I am a proud, Appalachian woman. I live in the Smoky...
by Jessica Juarez Scruggs | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog
Five hundred women from across the country are gathering in Washington, D.C. for tonight's State of Our Union, which offers an alternative vision for our country in which gender and economic justice can overcome forces that seek to divide our nation along fault lines...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog
Did the Pentagon just officially declare a new Cold War with both China and Russia while also committing to wage endless wars around the globe? Apparently, yes — that was the central message of the Trump administration’s newly released National Defense Strategy,...
