by Liz Ryan Murray | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog
The Treasury Department has released their report on financial regulations they want to scrap. Spoiler alert: the Wall Street sharpies who Trump put in charge of our economy, who made fortunes on both ends of the housing collapse, think pretty much all regulations on...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog
New Yorkers face a “summer of hell” as Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie seek to hand over the city's historic Penn Station to private investors. This "hell" is the result of our leaders’ “bipartisan” reluctance to invest in needed government infrastructure....
by Alyssa Aguilera, Jeremy Saunders | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog
More people die in the United States from drug overdoses every year than from car crashes or guns. Over half a million lives were lost between 2000 and 2015; data suggests 2016 will have the most overdose deaths in American history. These deaths have spiked because of...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog
When he withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump gave a speech so filled with falsehoods that it triggered detailed rebuttals by publications ranging from Politifact to Scientific American. The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" column, which hands out...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog
The Cook Political Report, one of the most respected handicappers of political races, doesn’t count New Jersey’s fourth congressional district – which encompasses most of central New Jersey – as even plausibly competitive for a Democrat. It’s now represented by a...
by Tobita Chow | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog
Tobita Chow delivered the following speech to the "From Resistance to Power" session at the People's Summit, a gathering of more than four thousand progressive activists in Chicago over the weekend of June 9-11, 2017. We live in a time of crisis. Billionaires and...
