by Miles Mogulescu | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump leaves this weekend for a 12-day trip to Asia, including stops in South Korea and China. Unless advisors keep a tight muzzle on him, there’s reason to worry that aggressive rhetoric could increase the risks of escalating into a deadly war with a...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog
There's a lot that's bad in the tax scheme Republicans are cooking up on Capitol Hill right now, but one particularly odious ingredient is a proposal to eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes (SALT) which could end up undercutting funding for education,...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 1, 2017 | Blog
With passage of their budget framework, Republicans in Congress have embarked on a preposterous mission of passing—in three weeks—a tax bill that still hasn’t been released to the public as of this writing. They plan to pass the bill, which is likely to end up near...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 1, 2017 | Blog
"Here we go again," was what many left-leaning folks likely felt after seeing a recent announcement about a new effort by wealthy donors to rescue the Democratic Party from its electoral doldrums. Backed by $20 million, the "New Blue" campaign, coming from politically...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 30, 2017 | Blog
A new poll shows most Democratic voters want their party to move left, with new people in charge. In other words, they want a political revolution. They've got the right idea. If the party establishment thinks Robert Mueller's investigation will save it, it's probably...
by Joe Mangino | Oct 28, 2017 | Blog
I’m Joe Mangino, and I live with my family in the Jersey Shore town of Beach Haven West. Five years after Hurricane Sandy, we’re still on the long road home. Sandy took away my house and my livelihood. Like many of our neighbors, the Mangino family was knocked down....
