by Jeff Bryant | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog
Betsy DeVos had a rocky Senate confirmation hearing in committee before the panel split along party lines while voting to send Trump's nominee for education secretary to the full Senate. Subsequently, two Republicans who took part in the hearing, Susan Collins of...
by Libero Della Piana | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog
I was a high school student in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1986, the first year Martin Luther King Day was observed as a federal holiday. Just not in Utah. Utah voted that year to observe “Human Rights Day” on the third Monday in January instead, because of opposition to...
by Antonia Juhasz | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog
It’s official: Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson will serve as secretary of state. The Senate voted 56-43 to make the Texan multi-millionaire the nation’s top diplomat just one day after ExxonMobil reported its lowest profits in almost 30 years. The oil major’s weak...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog
Economic growth is slow, the trade deficit is too big, and these dots are connected. First, the stalling economy. As Wonkblog recently reported on what it called "a long period of tepid expansion under the Obama administration," GDP growth has averaged about 2.1...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 31, 2017 | Blog
The 45th President of the United States just handled one of his gravest responsibilities, the nomination of a Supreme Court justice, with his trademark vulgar and vaudevillian vapidity. Only 11 days into his presidency, Donald Trump's shtick has become as boring as it...
by Robert Reich | Jan 31, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump has reorganized the National Security Council—elevating his chief political strategist Steve Bannon, and demoting the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bannon will join the NSC’s principals committee, the top...
