by Dave Johnson | May 17, 2016 | Blog
The Verizon strike is still going on, and has passed the one-month mark. This is about working people versus giant corporations that have vast power. The 40,000 striking workers want a few things, but the immensely profitable corporation and its wealthy executives...
by Bill Scher | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
You can say this for Donald Trump; he doesn't delegate the job of attack dog. He likes to scorch his own earth. In what has to be an unprecedented interview, Trump gleefully shared with the New York Times his innermost thoughts on how he plans to rhetorically fillet...
by Leo Gerard | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald “I am really, really rich” Trump is, according to Forbes, the 121st richest person in America. So, yes, he is really, really rich He loves the perks of being really, really rich, like flying to campaign events in one...
by Dave Johnson | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Flint, Michigan is this year's face of the infrastructure problem: Flint's (and many other cities') outdated water systems are literally poisoning people. All around us we see bridges and roads that are in (really) bad shape, aging and failing rail transit systems,...
by Lindsay Koshgarian | May 16, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
My water’s clean, but I’m feeling sick anyway. The residents of Flint have gone without clean water for 748 days, and counting. That’s more than two years: long enough for toddlers to become preschoolers, for infants to graduate from lead-tainted formula to...
by Richard Eskow | May 16, 2016 | Blog, Economy
A new study by the Pew Research Center spurred a rash of headlines last week about “the dying middle class." But the word “dying” might be more appropriate if we were watching the regrettable but inevitable effects of natural forces at work. We're not. We're...
