by Dave Johnson | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision, Tax Reform
Are We the People the boss of giant multinational corporations, or are they the boss of us? Imagine, if you will, going to the IRS and saying, "I don't think the tax rate is fair so I'm not going to pay it." Regular Americans can't do that. But Apple just did. Apple's...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Contrary to recent headlines, Donald Trump isn’t reaching out to African-Americans. He isn’t even talking to us. He’s talking past us, and saying exactly what his alt-right base wants to hear him saying to black folks. Donald Trump is telling African-Americans that...
by Sarah Jaffe | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
At a press event in Kingston, New York, a Hudson Valley community about 90 miles north of Manhattan, the local Democratic congressional candidate, Zephyr Teachout, earlier this month called for a debate. But not with her Republican opponent, John Faso. Instead she...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is revving up for a vote in the "lame duck" session of Congress that follows the election, and the Rock Against the TPP Concert Tour is drawing large crowds. Awareness of TPP drives opposition, and Rock Against the TPP is doing its...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The first real conversation I had with Sarah Jaffe was on a school bus heading out for a series of direct actions — and a few brave arrests — in Washington, DC with 1,000 community leaders from National People’s Action and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. It...
by Mark Weisbrot | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
How much is President Obama willing to harm the Democratic Party in order to win approval for the deeply unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “trade” agreement? We may soon find out. On Tuesday, Politico broke the story that the White House will be “making an...
