by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste," Rahm Emanuel infamously said when he was President Obama's White House chief of staff. So it is with the legislation that President Obama signs into law Thursday that offers Puerto Rico a process for managing its crushing...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
After six years, and more than 60 votes to repeal health care reform, Paul Ryan and House Republicans have come up with a GOP alternative to Obamacare that’s guaranteed to make millions of Americans sick. One week ago, Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans released...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog
A recent article in the New York Times looked at the “dire effects” when private equity firms gain some control over public services like emergency care and firefighting. The reporter should have added education to the list. As the article explains, most people don’t...
by Bill Scher | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog, Climate
The linchpin of the international Paris climate deal is the Green Climate Fund, which helps developing countries grapple with climate change. The Obama administration pledged to contribute $3 billion to the fund by 2020, but the Republicans have been pledging to...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog, Economy
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair …” If Tony Blair’s op-ed on Brexit is mournful and even elegiac in tone, that’s understandable. Great Britain’s vote to leave the European Union was, after all, a repudiation of his legacy as prime minister. And if it isn’t as...
by Jim Hightower | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Attention people, there’s big news out of Washington: Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, has announced that he has an idea! This is news because the GOP leadership hasn’t offered a new idea in years. Instead, they’ve simply been the party of no, opposing...
