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...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog
Economically, culturally, strategically, and morally, Donald Trump's obsessive efforts to ban Muslim immigrants and refugees from the United States have impoverished us all. His most recent attempt proves it. Premeditated Hate On Tuesday, a federal judge in Hawaii...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog
A favorite talking point of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is to say that conversations about education should not be about "systems and buildings" but about "individual students." It's a skillfully crafted soundbite designed to cast schools as oppressive...
by Hannah Gelder | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog
Republicans in Congress want to drive our nation’s economy, and budget, off a cliff. They just don’t care. But it doesn’t have to be that way; here in Illinois, we know from experience there is a way out of this madness, if we stand together and put people and planet...
