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...
by Laurel Wales | Nov 9, 2017 | Blog
What a difference a year makes! Waking up after Election Day in 2017 is incredibly different from last November, when we faced the prospect of a misogynist-in-chief in the White House, starring in a four-year reality show of his own creation at our expense. Trump and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog
Trumpism was trounced Tuesday night in Virginia, New Jersey and Maine. The rejection of President Trump's agenda that grabbed the most headlines was the surprisingly sound defeat of longtime Republican operative Ed Gillespie in the Virginia governor's race by the...
