by Sarah Chaisson-Warner | Jun 19, 2017 | Blog
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is playing political chicken with our lives. Since he and the other Republicans in his 13-member working group are choosing to draft their bill to repeal health care in secret, it’s up to us to share the stories of those who will...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jun 18, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump has made clear that there’s little room in his “America First” foreign policy for pressure on authoritarian foreign governments - whether Russia, Saudi Arabia, or China - to improve their human rights record. When it comes to human rights, as Trump told...
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...
