by Robert Borosage | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog
Sweeping victories in last Tuesday’s elections provided a bracing tonic for Democrats. “In case there was any doubt,” tweeted former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, “the Resistance is real.” Tuesday’s victories should buoy Democrats but not mislead them. The reaction...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog
The voters of New Jersey just elected a former Wall Street banker as their new governor. Just what America needs, right? Many onlookers are undoubtedly thinking that the last thing our country needs at this troubled time another well-heeled Wall Streeter in a powerful...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 14, 2017 | Blog
The base is critical to victory — and it wants to move left. If you're a Democrat, there's a name for that unfamiliar emotion you were feeling last Tuesday night. It's called happiness. But there is a serious risk that the party will draw the wrong lessons from last...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
The concentrated wealth of the global plutocracy is the dark matter of the world economy: it is rarely glimpsed and difficult to measure, yet it reshapes everything around it. Two recent reports – the UBS/PwC report on the "new Gilded Age" of the international...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 11, 2017 | Blog
There are a lot of differences of opinion on charter schools, but one thing objective observers can agree on is they are divisive. As charter schools have grown more numerous, they've become increasingly unpopular, across political ideologies, and in community after...
by Bernie Horn | Nov 10, 2017 | Blog
In the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting, authorities and interest groups have put on a master class in how to bamboozle the media and whitewash unpleasant truths. It's time to talk about what's really happening with guns and gun violence in our country. As we all...
