by Robert Borosage | May 12, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump has ginned up a continuous din in his first four months as president, with each outrage or grotesquerie immediately followed by another. Amid the furors, it is easy to lose track of the key standard by which Trump will be judged by his key voters: his...
by Ed Weberman | May 12, 2017 | Blog
Health care saves lives, and real stories about this are pouring out at Town Hall meetings across the country. Ed Weberman, from White Lake, Michigan, explains how the Affordable Care Act saved his son’s life, and how it inspired him to fight for others. The...
by Jeff Bryant | May 11, 2017 | Blog
Another week, another round of evidence that providing parents with more "school choice," especially the kind that lets them opt out of public schools, is not a very effective vehicle for ensuring students improve academically or that taxpayer dollars are spent more...
by Julie Chinitz | May 10, 2017 | Blog
House Speaker Paul Ryan, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price and other Republican Party leaders have slithered onto news shows to lie about the repugnant health care repeal passed by the House of Representatives. They’re lying because, simply put, the...
by Mark Trahant | May 10, 2017 | Blog
The flurry that is the Trump Administration continues to impact Indian Country in ways that are expected — as well as those that surprise. A nasty surprise at that. The latest offering is a presidential signing statement that targets federal programs that serve...
by Libero Della Piana | May 10, 2017 | Blog
When people feel powerless - locked out of decision-making, bypassed by real governance - they turn to protest. Especially for the disenfranchised and oppressed, protest is often the only way to exert power and affect policies and practices that impact their lives and...
