by Leo Gerard | Sep 4, 2017 | Blog
Watching helplessly as flood waters rose was not an option for Brandon Parker. This Texas refinery worker and member of the United Steelworkers (USW) union has a jacked-up Suburban and a friend with a boat. There was no way he was going to let family members,...
by Krista Sperber | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog
All our eyes have been glued to the devastation that is Hurricane Harvey. Here in New Jersey, we are still waiting on the help we were promised to fully recover from Superstorm Sandy, so we know the road home will be long and full of challenges. We feel heartbroken at...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump traveled to Springfield, Missouri to kick off the administration’s next big initiative: cutting taxes. Here was the essential Trump, the confidence man, peddling a plan that does not yet exist on paper. Populist bluster was deployed to cover for what will...
by Alan Jenkins | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog
The President of the United States is a white supremacist. He is not just a defender or apologist for bigots and hatemongers. He is one of them, and no one who’s been paying attention can be shocked to learn this. What’s more, when the President of the United States...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog, Conservatism
People whose lives have been destroyed by floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters face a special kind of anguish. The things they trusted the most - the ground beneath their feet, and the sky above - have turned against them. Their most personal spaces have...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 28, 2017 | Blog
Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou every once in a while likes to think “outside the box.” Back in 2010, for instance, the giant electronics manufacturer that Gou runs — Foxconn — was facing what corporate flacks like to call a major “PR problem.” Working conditions...
