by Miles Mogulescu | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog
Senator Lindsey Graham — who is fast becoming the gravedigger of the Senate, with his last-ditch attempt to resurrect the Republican’s zombie “repeal and replace” of Obamacare — is strangely framing his action as a bid to kill Bernie Sanders' Medicare For All bill,...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog
Hillary Clinton’s book-length reflection on the 2016 presidential race, What Happened, struggles to answer the haunting question of how a highly experienced candidate with a massive political machine lost to Donald Trump and his vile clown campaign. The book is less...
by Josh Crandell | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog
Banks are trying to score another victory over hardworking Americans, this time by refusing to lend to minorities, women, and rural residents who own and run small businesses. When President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act into law in 2010, it required the Consumer...
by Julie Chinitz | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog
How cruel and inhumane can a piece of legislation get? The latest Republican proposal to repeal health care – yes, GOP leaders are at it again – takes us to a new low, with a revised version of repeal analysts are calling even more damaging than a...
by Paul Engler, Sophie Lasoff | Sep 18, 2017 | Blog
The Resistance Movement against Trump has been powerful — but how do we keep it going? We are in the midst of one of the largest social movements of our time, with record numbers engaged after decades of demobilization. The Women’s March was the largest single day of...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
This year, there's a certain type of “back-to-school” news story you’re bound to see in local newspapers. The stories typically start with: “[Student A] goes to school in her pajamas, and [student B] often does her lessons with a pet dog or cat on her lap.” Instead of...
