by LeeAnn Hall | Oct 13, 2017 | Blog
When Republican leaders tried to repeal health care in the spring and summer, many Americans raised the alarm and made a ruckus. We asked hard questions, looked at the independent analyses, held town halls, told our health care stories, and took to the streets....
by Richard Eskow | Oct 12, 2017 | Blog
Two opposing forces are fighting to reshape Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Wall Street, which has been plundering the island for years, is trying to tighten its grip on the island. Meanwhile, organized labor is working to rebuild the island - and to...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 12, 2017 | Blog
Giant corporations, loyal to coin and faithless to country, staged a public display of blubbering in the run up to this week’s fourth round of negotiations to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Whaa, whaaa, whaaaa, groups like the U.S. Chamber of...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog
With less than a year in office, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is already having the narrative of her impact on the nation's public schools recast from someone with the power to "single-handedly decimate our public education system" to someone who is capable of only...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog
The Republican tax plan is a lie. It’s being sold with the promise that the tax cut will create jobs and growth. In fact, the Republican tax cuts, if passed, will become the major obstacle to the very investments vital to generating good jobs and future economic...
by Ben Ishibashi | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump and his Environmental Protection Agency chief, Scott Pruitt, think undoing all that has gone before them is something to celebrate. With no real accomplishments of their own, they revel in their power to destroy, rather than defend. This is what Pruitt...
