by Larry Cohen | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog
I first met Keith Ellison soon after he came to Congress in 2007. We were beginning the push for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. Ten years ago it was already clear that collective bargaining rights in the US were at the bottom of global democracies and many...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog
When it comes to Cabinet-level appointments, Donald Trump hasn't lost his ability to astonish and dismay. At this point his staffing process has pretty much turned into an extended exercise in trolling, a test to see how much humiliation the American people will...
by Bill Scher | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog
When the Trump transition asked the Energy Department to name employees that attended climate change conferences, many people -- especially Energy Department employees -- reacted in horror, concluding that the incoming administration wants to purge career civil...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog
Trump got fewer votes in an election where millions were denied their right to vote. Republicans control the House of Representatives through gerrymandering, not votes. Democrats got millions more votes for Senators but Republicans have the majority. Nonetheless,...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog
All Chuck Jones was trying to say is that Presidential-elect exaggeration is a killer when it involves jobs. It’s one thing for a candidate to inflate stuff like personal wealth. But when a President-elect tells the country...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog
What does it tell us when leading Democrats are more upset about alleged Russian election-rigging than they are about proven Republican election-rigging? After all, American oligarchs like the Koch Brothers have no more right to undermine our democracy than Russian...
