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...
by Sarah Chaisson-Warner | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog
It’s time to ramp up our resistance to the Trump-Ryan agenda on health care. We scored our biggest legislative victory so far on March 24, when Speaker Paul Ryan called off his bid to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), because he didn't have the votes. This was an...
by Mark Trahant | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog
No coal here. The Native Village of Tyonek, Alaska, celebrated the suspension of a nearby coal project by PacRim Coal. The tribal community is located some 45 miles west of Anchorage. PacRim estimated the project to include some 242 million tons of coal. A...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog
How many registered nurses fantasize about living forever? Probably not many. How many math teachers daydream about immortality? Probably not many there either. Traffic cops? Bartenders? Civil engineers? All likely the same story. We have no evidence that any economic...
