by Leo Gerard | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
The Canadian Royal Mounties have offered to ride to the rescue of beleaguered American workers. It doesn’t sound right. Americans perceive themselves to be the heroes. They are, after all, the country whose intervention won World War II, the country whose symbol, the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
The surprise deal President Trump struck this week with Democratic congressional leaders is an agreement to continue the status quo on federal government funding through December. That means three more months to fight against the Republicans' budget proposal, which...
by Miles Mogulescu | Sep 7, 2017 | Blog
Memo to Donald Trump, Jr. from counsel: A bungled crime is still a crime. If you don’t believe me, ask tens of thousands of inmates living behind bars. Planning a crime and failing to successfully pull it off can still be a crime. And Donnie just admitted it, on...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 7, 2017 | Blog
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos proclaims her agenda is to "focus everything about education on individual students," but if she really cared about the welfare of students she would speak out about what her boss President Trump is doing to hundreds of...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 6, 2017 | Blog
Houston has barely begun to recover from Hurricane Harvey, as Irma devastates the Caribbean and heads towards Puerto Rico and Florida. Its hard to imagine all the grief, effort, and cost it will take to rebuild from one of these thousand-year storms, much less two....
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
While President Trump's boastful comments about crowd size at his tour of Hurricane Harvey's devastation in Houston struck some as egotistical and self-aggrandizing, his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had a similar performance in Florida, where she robotically...
