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...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog
While it may be President Obama's job to ease the country through the change in leadership to a President Donald Trump administration, the rest of the country doesn't have to go along with it. At least, that's the message coming from a massive show of protest and...
by Bill Scher | Nov 17, 2016 | Blog
Tonight, Donald Trump tweeted that he "Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky - no Mexico" and "I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky. I owed it to...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 17, 2016 | Blog
President-elect Donald Trump made a number of promises to his voters. Here is today’s post about a promise that he has already broken. This is already becoming a regular series. Pre-Election Trump: "We Can't Do That" Donald Trump campaigned on a promise not to cut...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 17, 2016 | Blog
For the first time in a quarter-century, we’re about to see a vacuum of political and intellectual leadership in the Democratic Party. An entire generation of leaders – including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Bill and Hillary Clinton – will be leaving the political...
