by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 8, 2017 | Blog
Sears is fading. Fast. The 124-year-old retailer — the place where all America once shopped — is tumbling into a shopping horror. At some Sears stores, recent news accounts report, ceilings are collapsing, rats are racing, and toilets aren’t working “for weeks on...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 7, 2017 | Blog
American workers have made a simple request of politicians for decades: stop the trade violations that kill American manufacturers and jobs. American factories and workers are willing to compete. They are able to compete. But the playing field must be level. American...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog
“I mean, have you seen the other guys?” That's one of the slogans that was recently proposed by Democratic Party strategists, presumably in a lighthearted way. But the joke, if that’s what it was, reflects an underlying belief among party leaders that Democrats' best...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog
Democrats know that success for their party relies on bringing labor and civil rights advocates together on key issues. Faced with disastrous Donald Trump, labor and civil rights advocates are rallying in common cause behind health care for all, a living wage for...
by Mark Trahant | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog
The Senate’s health care bill is “mostly dead.” But that’s not the same as all dead. And this holiday recess will decide either the legislation has a second life or if there is a better way to proceed. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog
We’ve arrived once again at that time of year — Independence Day — when the op-ed pages of America’s newspapers fill up with celebrations of democracy and the American Revolution’s enormous contribution to it. But this year’s hearty salutes to the Spirit of ’76 come...