by Andy Spears | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog
A group of Tennessee dads gathered inside a dimly-lit parking garage on a rainy Nashville day to send a message to their senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander. Their message was simple: this Father's Day, they want their senators to protect Medicaid. The assembled...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog
Given the Democratic Party's recent failures, isn’t it time to debate ideas and strategy? The populist uprising championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, now America’s most (only?) popular politician, just gathered at the People’s Summit in Chicago. Over...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog
One cost of freedom is steel. To remain independent, America must maintain its own vibrant steel industry. Steel is essential to make munitions, armor plate, aircraft carriers, submarines and fighter jets, as well as the roads and bridges on which these armaments are...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog
The smell of gun smoke had net yet lifted from an Alexandria baseball field when the calls for unity began. “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan. “You're going to hear me say something you've never heard me say...
by Sarah Chaisson-Warner | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog
Republican leaders in the Senate are very quietly – and very secretly – forcing through a radical health care repeal that threatens the lives of people across the country. It’s up to us to make noise and demand our voices be heard: In 2005, I was diagnosed with...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog
Quick, is this school a nonprofit or for-profit? In the most recent financial filings available, the couple who run a chain of 18 schools pay themselves $315,000 a year, plus nearly $39,000 in benefits. The school also employs their daughters, their son, and even a...
