by Dave Johnson | May 3, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade
[fve]https://youtu.be/Y3ttxGMQOrY[/fve] Sometimes an event comes along that crystallizes people's awareness of an issue. It is just the right things at the right time. The layoffs at the Indianapolis Carrier air conditioner factory are an example of this kind of...
by Robert Reich | May 2, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
Marissa Mayer tells us a lot about why Americans are so angry, and why anti-establishment fury has become the biggest single force in American politics today. Mayer is CEO of Yahoo. Yahoo’s stock lost about a third of its value last year, as the company went from...
by Bill Scher | May 2, 2016 | Blog
In The New Republic today I explore how Hillary Clinton could campaign when there are two disparate camps of voters she will be compelled to pursue: Bernie Sanders voters on her left, and anti-Donald Trump Republicans on her right. Sanders voters are...
by Larry Cohen | May 2, 2016 | Blog
Bernie Sanders will campaign all the way up to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia to seek the nomination—and to continue building the “political revolution.” What is that political revolution, beyond his call to get the billionaires and corporations out and the...
by Richard Long | May 2, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Part of the case that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been making for pressing his campaign through the convention can be found in a poll of young voters released last week by the Harvard Institute of Politics. That poll of over 3,000 respondents reveals two...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Billionaire investor (he's always described that way) Carl Ichan is calling on Congress to start spending. You read that right: Ichan is saying there is a "day or reckoning" coming if the federal government doesn't spend more to stimulate the economy. CNBC has the...
