by Robert Borosage | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
There’s no place like home. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won big last night in their home state of New York. Trump won 60.5 percent of the vote and 88 delegates, with John Kasich a distant second and New Yorkers giving Ted Cruz a good taste of their values – and a...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Trade
I went to Washington, D.C., last week to ask trade experts and lawmakers to stop the relentless, lawless, callous dumping of Chinese steel, aluminum, paper, rubber, glass, chemicals and other products, which has closed mills, killed jobs, destroyed lives, devastated...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade
The Bush administration negotiated the Panama free trade agreement without addressing Panama's bank and corporate secrecy. Panama has little to "trade" with the U.S., so maybe leaving secrecy out of the agreement wasn't an accident; it was the point. It provided a...
by Bernie Sanders | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/sTfTabMRRpw[/fve] Remarks delivered by Bernie Sanders at The Vatican, on April 15, 2016. I am honored to be with you today and was pleased to receive your invitation to speak to this conference of The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Today...
by Roger Hickey | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/oVVwHH8FFjE[/fve] On Monday I joined hundreds of others to get arrested at the U.S. Capitol building. It’s been a while since I last engaged in civil disobedience. But I am just one of millions of people in America who want to stop the growing...
by Dean Baker | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Health
I like Jonathan Cohn personally and have great respect for his work as a reporter and writer on health care issues. However, I think he actually told readers the opposite of what he intended in his Huffington Post piece headlined, "this one line sums up the big...
