by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog
In this year’s first quarter, the Federal Reserve reported last week, the total amount of wealth in the United States nudged over $88 trillion, a record high. So do you feel wealthier than ever? Probably not. Economic insecurity remains the norm for tens of millions...
by Bill Scher | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
Speaker Paul Ryan's has been rolling out an ambitious legislative agenda, titled "A Better Way," designed to show that the Republican Party – irrespective of Donald Trump – is brimming with exciting policy ideas and is ready to govern. But The Atlantic finds it akin...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Some politicians and commentators say that Bernie Sanders is losing leverage because he hasn’t conceded the Democratic primary to front-runner Hillary Clinton. To believe that is to misunderstand both the candidate and his supporters. Sanders received a mandate in...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 17, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
While the rest of the country, and the rest of the world stood with Orlando in grief and solidarity, right-wingers tried to outdo each other with awful reactions. In the late hours of Saturday night, a gunman, who allegiance to ISIS, walked in to The Pulse — a popular...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 17, 2016 | Blog, Education
Scott Gilpin works in advertising, so he's used to dealing with people in the promotions business. He's just not used to seeing them operating a local public school. Gilpin lives in Denver, where he grew up, graduated from high school and now has two children enrolled...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 17, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
We live on. Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, we live on. We live on in the memories of those we leave behind. We live on in words, in gestures, in glances, in anything that changes the heart of another person forever. We live on in loved ones and in...
