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...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 9, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump surrounds himself in gold. The signs on Trump buildings shimmer in it. His penthouse in New York is gilded in it. He claims now to have found the alchemy to conjure $1 trillion in infrastructure gold. He plans to put up a mere $200 billion in federal...
by Erica Nanton | Jun 8, 2017 | Blog
The two hundred miles I walked from Chicago to Springfield with my dear friends from Fair Economy Illinois have special meaning to me. We marched fifteen days to demand a budget for our state that puts people and planet first. Throughout this beautiful and grueling...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 8, 2017 | Blog
U.S. Secretary Betsy DeVos had another rough day in Congress this week when Senators grilled her on the details of her budget, which slashes over $9 billion from the education department and diverts $1.4 billion to privately operated schools such as charter schools...
