by Gail Ablow | Sep 9, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Over the past month, thousands of protesters, including Native Americans from more than 100 tribes across the country, have traveled to North Dakota to help the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe block the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built. Last week, the Standing Rock...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 8, 2016 | Blog, Economy
You're a small business. You struggle to compete against the giants like the Walmarts, the Caterpillars, the Apples... On top of the advantages they have with their economies of scale, their nearly unlimited financing and ability to attract the top talent, their size...
by Martha Burk | Sep 8, 2016 | Blog, Defense/Foreign Policy, Gender Justice
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton sparred separately on military matters with back-to-back appearances on NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum on Wednesday. Trump stuck with his usual empty bombast, assuring a meek Matt Lauer that he would fix things up...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 8, 2016 | Blog, Education
As parents and students reenter public schools for a new year, they're hearing a lot about "school choice." Having "choice," they're told, lets parents send their kids to schools other than their assigned neighborhood school, such as a charter school, a magnet school,...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned Wednesday that the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS or "corporate court") provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will give big, multinational corporations "leverage" to "threaten and intimidate governments that...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
North Carolina Republican consultant Carter Wrenn plainly spelled it out: if African-Americans voted Republican, voter ID laws like his state's “monster law” wouldn’t have happened. “Look,” Wrenn told The Washington Post, “if African-Americans voted overwhelmingly...
