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...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog
"Millions of families — undocumented workers, union members, women, Muslim Americans, low-wage workers who could lose healthcare or affordable housing — are living in fear of what comes next. " - Silicon Valley Rising Silicon Valley Rising is a coalition of community,...
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...
