by Mark Trahant | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
Cognitive scientist George Lakoff has described the process for Republican thinking as a set of assumptions built on the idea of a strict father. He wrote in his classic book, "Don’t Think of an Elephant," The strict father model begins with a set of assumptions: The...
by Nancy Altman | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
No one voted to destroy Medicare. Yet, the first battle in the war over Medicare has arrived. Why would anyone want to destroy Medicare? It has stood the test of time. The smart policy is to expand it to everyone. Medicare shows government at its best. Government at...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
For Donald Trump, this has got to hurt: Less than two weeks after his inauguration, the people who took to the streets to protest his policies have outstripped him in popularity. And, given his rich history of "locker room banter" and other sexist comments, it must be...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
The United States ran the most enormous, humongous trade deficit last year since 2012. The gap between our exports and imports widened by 0.4 percent to $502.3 billion in 2016, the Census Bureau reported today. The government also found that the trade deficit amounted...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump had Harley-Davidson executives and employees over to lunch at the White House last week and reiterated his promise to end wrong-headed trade policies that enable foreign countries to eat American workers’ lunch. Trump reassured the Harley...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
This is going down to the wire. Senate Democrats, channeling public opposition to Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education while venting their own outrage over her lack of qualifications for the job, are occupying the Senate floor for 24 hours...
