by Leo Gerard | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
“Make me.” That’s how Donald Trump responded during the last debate when Hillary Clinton pointed out that he failed to use American steel to construct the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Trump used Chinese steel. So he created jobs for Chinese workers. Not American...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
There is a push underway for a huge corporate tax break from the next administration. Multinational corporations owe more than $720 billion in taxes on profits stashed in tax havens. They are proposing to bring those profits back if the government lets them pay only a...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
“Join us, join us,” a police-battered Tom Hayden shouted to passing delegates from the 1968 Democratic Convention. Hayden’s life was a test of character. He saw his colleagues and heroes gunned down, assassinated, or shunned. He endured the privations of jail and the...
by O.J. Semans | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
Many of the over 1 million Native Americans living on reservations do not have reasonable voting access. Some have to travel tens of miles, sometimes more than 100 miles, to vote, when most people live a few miles from a polling station. Add to that longstanding...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
Michael Hiltzik and Richard Eskow discuss bank fraud on The Zero Hour The Better Business Bureau pulled Wells Fargo’s accreditation last week, which is what it's supposed to do when businesses cheat their customers. What took so long? If we judged big banks by the...
by Martha Burk | Oct 23, 2016 | Blog
Seemed like only seconds after Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” in the final debate that women retaliated. In what Glamour magazine dubbed a “bad-ass backlash” hashtags like #NastyWomenVote and jokes about Nasty Woman being Trump’s favorite...
