by Katherine Kiel | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog
Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the Love Canal crisis, when toxic chemicals were found to be leaking from an underground dump into homes in Niagara Falls, New York. State and federal agencies relocated more than 200 families out of the affected area....
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog
This week's disturbing news that Oklahoma schools are so poorly funded some of them may move from five days a week to four got a lot of people's attention, including my colleague Richard Eskow, who called this an example of "the Republican party's sickness of the...
by Libero Della Piana | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog
As resistance to Trump’s agenda gathers steam, many sectors of the progressive left and Democratic Party leaders turn their eyes toward the 2018 elections as the next step in the struggle. But too few are working to defend and restore voting rights. Don’t get me wrong...
by Robert Borosage | May 31, 2017 | Blog
The Congressional Budget Office has confirmed what was already apparent: The revised House Republican health-care bill will still deprive millions of Americans - 23 million in the CBO estimate - of health insurance. Senate Republicans are devising their plan in...
by Richard Eskow | May 30, 2017 | Blog
There’s a sickness on the land. You know the facts: millions of Americans lives in poverty. The number of Americans in the workforce remains low. Wages are stagnating and inequality is growing. “Deaths of despair” from alcoholism, opioid overdose, and suicide are on...
by Jeff Bryant | May 30, 2017 | Blog
You and I witnessed history last week, and not the good kind. At a House subcommittee hearing In Washington, DC, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was called to defend to Congress the Trump administration’s education budget which cuts education options for poor...
