by Bill Scher | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Climate
Donald Trump is so consistently inconsistent, the challenge is to remind folks that what he says one minute that may seem appealing is often contradicted in the next minute. When it comes to the climate, we don't have that problem. Trump has made it crystal clear he...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 26, 2016 | Blog, Education
The false god of school vouchers has been unmasked once again, this time by a Brookings Institution study that says students in Louisiana and Indiana using vouchers to attend private and religious schools ended up doing worse on reading and math scores than their...
by Jeff Bryant | May 26, 2016 | Blog, Education
Last year a breakthrough policy brief from the National Education Policy Center exposed some of the financial machinations charter schools engage in to further the interests of profit-seeking entrepreneurs. But what about the political machinations? The politics of...
by Terrance Heath | May 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
In an apparent about-face, the House approved a measure barring federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT employees, but that doesn’t mean House Republicans have learned anything. House Republican leaders did on Wednesday what they should have done last...
by Bill Scher | May 26, 2016 | Blog
Last week, CNN uncovered Donald Trump's 2006 remarks about how he wanted to profit off of a housing bubble: I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy. You know if you’re in a good cash position, which I’m in a good cash position...
by Robert Borosage | May 26, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has vowed to drive his bold policies ideas – from a $15 minimum wage and reviving union rights to tuition-free college and Medicare for All – into the Democratic Party platform to write the "strongest progressive agenda that any...
