by Dave Johnson | Mar 6, 2017 | Blog
Time and again, Candidate Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp in Washington." He swore to curb lobbying of government by special interest groups to procure favors for their clients. But instead, President Trump has cut out the middleman - he's gone directly into...
by Sarah Warner, Cynthia Ward Wikstrom | Mar 5, 2017 | Blog
Citizens have refused to take no – or no-shows – as answers when elected officials sidestep questions at town hall meetings about Republican plans to cut health care and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “They have a right to hear what policy proposals are on the table,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 3, 2017 | Blog
Making people "Look over there!" is a classic magician's trick. The magician misdirects the audience's attention, while palming a coin or putting a dove in a pocket. Misdirection is also used by con men far and wide. The Trump Spectacle The public is being misdirected...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 3, 2017 | Blog
“We've not done enough to help kids at the lower end of the socio-economic rungs,” says labor economist and Stanford University professor Martin Carnoy. It's not an accident these families, particularly in the African American community, are demanding vouchers,...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is a man out of time, a holdover from an age when some people believed that certain groups were exempt from the rule of law. He may be out of time in another way, too: His days as Attorney General might be numbered. Even in the...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign sensibly concluded that Donald Trump was so obviously unfit for office that he could not be elected. He was shockingly unprepared, corrupted, juvenile, poisonous, and often simply repugnant. Clinton chose to make...
