by Leo Gerard | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog
USW members at a 2016 anti-TPP rally in Washington, D.C. organized by the USW Rapid Response Department. Photo credit: Steve Dietz of Sharper Image Studios The defeat of the TPP is a tale of ants slaying a dragon. It seemed a fearsome task, challenging the powerful...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog
As Donald Trump prepares to assume the presidency, Americans must learn to distinguish the ways he is uniquely terrible from the ways in which he is not so terribly unique — except as a matter of degree. His extreme behavior shouldn't be "normalized," to use the...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog
In a democracy We the People pitch in and build public infrastructure that We the People all get to use equally. So when people talk about our country's infrastructure, they usually mean our public roads, bridges, mass transit, water and sewer systems. All of these...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog, The Trump Swamp
The billionaire Wilbur Ross, the Donald Trump adviser who may well become our next U.S. secretary of commerce, loudly opposes NAFTA and other trade pacts that ship U.S. jobs abroad. Does that opposition make Wilbur Ross a corporate good guy? Not quite. Wilbur Ross has...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog
How do Democrats respond to the coming of Donald Trump? The tens of thousands in the streets across the country provide one answer: no business as usual. Trump’s first appointments – a retired general as national security advisor whom Colin Powell privately terms...
by Julie Chinitz | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog
While Donald Trump is busy appointing corporate lobbyists and white supremacists to key positions on his staff, Congress remains in session. Lawmakers are now working on a budget that could make or break the balance sheet for families. Yet again, the GOP Congress...
