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...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog
At any other time, this (fill in the blank) would be the scandal of the decade. Now, with Donald Trump as president, we call it Monday. Thursday evening, Trump attacked Syria, a sovereign country, with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles. This act of war was done without...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog
Making America Great Again; every time a U.S. company hires a hundred people, or even a dozen, President Trump's support network blasts out the message that this is what he's doing. Now they're crowing that unemployment fell to 4.5 percent in March, even though many...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 7, 2017 | Blog
The bombing of Syria is the most irresponsible act of Donald Trump’s circus presidency – yet it enjoys the greatest applause from the foreign policy and political establishment. Trump is doing what Obama refused to do – bombing a sovereign nation in response to a...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 7, 2017 | Blog
In his first 70 days in office, President Donald Trump is shedding his most popular populist economic promises with the ease of a confidence man. The “chaos candidate,” as Jeb Bush dubbed him, presented himself as a populist champion who would clean out Washington. As...
