by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog
How much did your paychecks total last year? You know the answer, of course. So does the Social Security Administration. The totals for every American’s paycheck income are sitting in Social Security’s computers. Once every year, Social Security does a serious data...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog
No political ideology in modern American history has failed as consistently, or for as long, as the Wall Street-friendly political brand known as "Democratic centrism." It's true that individual politicians have succeeded under this umbrella, through art and luck, but...
by Harvey J Kaye | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog
Halloween is coming and fear mongering seems to be the order of the day – not just on the part of Republicans, but apparently no less so on the part of “centrist” and conservative Democrats who are expressing growing anxiety about offending big donors who see politics...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog
The Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party will always be with us. Its policies—on financial deregulation, trade, fiscal austerity, mass incarceration, and military intervention—have been ruinous. Its political aversion to populist appeals has been self-defeating....
by Imre Szalai | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog
In the wake of White Nationalist demonstrations in Charlottesville, American business leaders surprisingly and boldly stepped up to demonstrate moral leadership at a time when we needed it most. That response, from the CEOs who spoke out against hatred, was a stunning...
by O.J. Semans | Oct 23, 2017 | Blog
Years ago I heard a Federal Prosecutor, upon losing a case, quote Benjamin Franklin in this way: “It is better a hundred guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.” Franklin’s words came back to me when I learned about President Trump’s...
