by Dean Baker | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog
During his presidential campaign Donald Trump frequently talked about how he used campaign contributions as payoffs to advance his business interests. He boasted that if you give politicians money they have to do what you want. In an apparent effort to further advance...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/TfWqEeiBp5U[/fve] As the third week of Donald Trump's presidency gets underway, his administration's war on immigrants, especially Muslims, continues unabated. In the first weekend following his "Muslim ban" decree, U.S. Customs and Border...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog
Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of education, got awful reviews for her performance during her confirmation hearing. But no one predicted her confirmation was anything less than a sure deal. Now, suddenly, she's in big trouble. The DeVos unraveling...
by Kathy Mulady | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog
More than 2,000 people jammed Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s Penn Square on Tuesday, the chanting crowd overflowing into other streets as the protest against Donald Trump’s Muslim ban grew. By some estimates the event, organized by Keystone Progress and other groups, was...
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...
