by Jeff Bryant | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog
In this season of resistance, there's no issue more imperative to your community than the fight for public education. While Congress is in recess, until April 23, you've got the opportunity – and a brand new advocacy tool from the Network for Public Education – to...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2017 | Blog
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has issued a declaration of class war against the American people. His words may have sounded wonkish or technical, but underneath the coded language, Mulvaney was expressing Republicans' extreme ideas with unusual directness....
by Robert Borosage | Apr 12, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump’s feverish tweeting appears to be contagious. Amid a chorus of praise for the administration’s cruise missile strike on a Syrian airbase last week, Neera Tanden, the head of the Center for American Progress, dashed off a tweet calling on voters in Hawaii...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2017 | Blog
It’s possible to get carried away with outrage. Sometimes people mean to say relatively innocent things and they come out sounding wrong. Politics doesn’t need to become an indignation factory, and not every Republican gaffe is a sign of incipient fascism. But Sean...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog
In a democracy, We the People are in charge. We are the boss of the corporations. At least that's how it's supposed to work. Apparently, that isn't so much the way it is anymore. The United States used to regulate corporations to protect people from concentrated...
by Jill Richardson | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog
Imagine a parent who starves his children and fails to do any number of basic parental duties, but then buys one of his kids a healthy meal. Well, that’s good. Great, really. But it’s not enough. An act of goodness directed at one child cannot feed an entire starving...
