by Tobita Chow | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog
Trump’s election has killed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). Trump made it one of his top campaign promises to end the TPP, and his election win was a signal to supporters of the TPP in both parties to back down. Even Obama has reportedly given up on passing this...
by Bill Scher | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog
Last week I discussed how climate hawks could fight the environmental assault coming from the incoming Trump administration. One avenue requires help from other countries, who might threaten to slap carbon tariffs on the U.S. if Trump withdrew from the global Paris...
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...
