by Richard Eskow | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog
The once-proud political project known as "centrism" is collapsing around the globe, despite increasingly desperate attempts by billionaire backers to revive it. The center-right's implosion can be seen in the weakened state of Theresa May's Conservatives in Great...
by LeeAnn Hall | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog
Nine million children in this country are at the brink of losing health coverage. What do our lawmakers say about this? Not a damn word. Why? Because they care more about themselves than our children, and our country's future. But if they won't speak up, we will. On...
by Julie Chinitz | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog
Republican leadership isn’t subtle with their looting of the public treasury these days. Last Friday, Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, resigned for sticking the public with a more than $1 million bill for his personal use of private charter...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog
Senator Bernie Sanders received rapturous applause from progressives for his recent foreign-policy speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. “One of the finest speeches of his career,” wrote The Nation’s John Nichols. “The progressive foreign policy speech...
by Mark Trahant | Oct 2, 2017 | Blog
The Senate has given up on destroying Medicaid and much of the health care system and is now focused on restructuring the federal tax system (and destroying entitlement programs in the process). House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate leaders announce their framework for...
by Miles Mogulescu | Oct 1, 2017 | Blog
In Puerto Rico, we may be seeing a prequel of what a post-climate change dystopian world may look like, and it’s truly terrifying. I hope I’m wrong. Here’s an imagined picture of what Puerto Rico could look like in a few weeks or a few months, unless rescue efforts...
