by Dave Johnson | May 23, 2016 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama is in Vietnam promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Vietnam? Really? A year ago the post "Obama To Visit Nike To Promote the TPP. Wait, NIKE? Really?," noted how Nike pioneered moving jobs out of the country to take advantage of low wages and...
by Robert Borosage | May 23, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The Democratic establishment and liberal commentariat lathered itself into a fine hysteria last week. What began as a Hillary Clinton surrogate meme – (Bernie has done his job, but now he’s hurting Clinton and should get out of the race) - became a maddened chorus....
by Jeff Bryant | May 23, 2016 | Blog, Education
It didn't take long for conservatives to turn their attack on the rights of transgender students into an attack on another favorite target of theirs: public schools. In the pages of the conservative journal National Review, the latest screed declares, "The Obama...
by Terrance Heath | May 20, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any weirder, it turns out Donald Trump likely masqueraded as his own publicist, during phone calls with reporters — proving he probably belongs in a shrink’s office, instead of the Oval Office. It sounds like the kind of thing a...
by Dave Johnson | May 20, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Here we are in "Infrastructure Week" and here we are with a new argument for a massive infrastructure investment project – worldwide. Last week Peter Coy wrote at Bloomberg, in "How to Pull the World Economy Out of Its Rut," about economist Larry Summers' argument...
by Dave Johnson | May 19, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has released a report predicting the effect the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will have on the U.S. economy. In the past these reports have been skewed to promote trade agreements, with numbers that turned out to be much...
