by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 13, 2017 | Blog
In 1942, Franklin Roosevelt advanced what may have been the most politically daring policy proposal of his entire presidency. FDR called for the equivalent of a maximum wage. No individual American after paying taxes, Roosevelt declared, should have an income over...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 13, 2017 | Blog
The Trumpublicans are intent on manipulating the shock of Donald Trump’s victory to roll back much of the New Deal and Great Society; ram through unvetted Cabinet appointments intent on undermining the legal mandate of the very Departments they are charged with...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 13, 2017 | Blog
Education, which was hardly ever mentioned in the recent presidential election, has suddenly been thrust to the frontline in the increasingly heated conflict over President-Elect Donald Trump's proposed cabinet appointees. The reason for that turn of events is his...
by Bill Scher | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog
The Republicans are in a jam. For the last six years, they've pledged to repeal Obamacare, but haven't figured out a plan for replacing it. They are ideologically opposed to government involvement, but they know that taking away the health insurance of 20 million...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog, Democracy
The face of Jim Crow wasn't always the hooded Klansman, the defiant governor at the schoolhouse door or the club-wielding sheriff. It often smiled, uttered smooth words and offered a pat on the shoulder to quell the bubbling uprising. Racism, in other words, could...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog
"I'm also very much of a germaphobe, by the way, believe me." Try not to think too much about the story that led to this comment from the President-Elect of the United States. It's not easy, I know. We're only human, after all, and that story is so ... so out there....
