by Digby | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, This Is The GOP
I wrote about the Alt-right for Salon today. It's not exactly the same as European ethno-nationalism. It's scarier: After months of squabbling about whether it's acceptable to use the "F" word (fascism) it seems at long last that we have come to some kind of consensus...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Department of Labor (DOL) has released the final rules for implementing President Obama's two-year-old Fair Pay And Safe Workplaces executive order. The July 2014 post, Obama’s ‘Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order’, explained the order: Saying that...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Many opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) continue to assume Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is only saying she opposes TPP to get their votes, while hoping it passes in the "lame duck" session of Congress after the election and before...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, Education
Sometimes it takes a funnyman to make sense. Earlier this week, British comedian John Oliver devoted a “Back to School” segment on his HBO program "Last Week Tonight" to examining the rapidly growing charter school industry and what these schools are doing with our...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Flagging in the polls, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has decided to shake up his campaign, bringing in Stephen Bannon, head of Breitbart News LLC, as CEO. Paul Manafort, the experienced Republican operative who has urged Trump to pivot toward the center...
by Jamie Horwitz | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Do you remember the old Elvis hit "Return to Sender," and its lyrics “Return to sender, no such address, no such zone?” That’s the message that 2,000 postal workers from across the nation delivered at a rally against TPP Tuesday at Disney World’s Dolphin Hotel,...
