by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 19, 2016 | Blog
In a typical corporate board of directors meeting, what do CEOs see when they look out across their richly lacquered boardroom tables? They see . . . lots of other CEOs. That’s no accident. CEOs today purposely pack their corporate boards with their pals, who often...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 16, 2016 | Blog
Remember how the "news" media was going on and on about the Clinton Foundation -- at least when they weren't going on and on abut Hillary Clinton's emails, or airing entire Trump rallies for free? Media "coverage" of the 2016 campaign was almost entirely devoid of...
by Bill Scher | Dec 16, 2016 | Blog
Just in time for the Electoral College set to cast their ballots on Monday, all 50 states have finally certified their popular vote totals. Hillary Clinton: 65,844,610 (48.2%) Donald Trump: 62,979,636 (46.1%) Others: 7,756,035 (5.7%) Now we have the hard numbers to do...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 15, 2016 | Blog
This is the time of year when people try to make sense of the preceding twelve months. It’s a fool’s errand, in one sense. A year is an arbitrary division of time. We decide what it means in retrospect, and we never get it exactly right. But the meaning we give it...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 15, 2016 | Blog
Donald Trump's election to the US Presidency left education policy experts at a complete loss to explain what this would mean for the nation's schools. During his campaign, Trump had given few clues about what would inform his education leadership, only that he had...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 15, 2016 | Blog
Coal miners, their communities and Faith groups are calling on President-presumed-Elect Donald Trump to honor his campaign promise to help coal workers. In an "Open Letter to President-Elect Donald Trump from coal miners," hundreds of coal miners from Appalachia to...
