by Dave Johnson | Apr 5, 2016 | Blog, Trade
The February trade deficit numbers are out. Exports were up but imports were up way more than exports. Result: We shipped even more jobs and wealth out of the country in exchange for stuff we could have made here. That means we also shipped out essential components of...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 5, 2016 | Blog, Tax Reform
Giant, mega-profitable companies like the drug maker Pfizer engage in complicated, tricky schemes to dodge paying the taxes they owe. The result is that there is not enough money for bridge repair, better schools, and other public goods. The Treasury Department caught...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 5, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
For years, Republicans have kept a gambit going where they gin up hate for political gain. They condemn marriage equality. They throw a hissy fit about what bathroom transgender people use. They try every dirty trick in the book to prevent black people from voting....
by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Election 2016
Republican voter suppression turned Arizona's primary into a fiasco that forced people to wait in five-hour-long lines to vote. Many were turned away. Wisconsin Republicans are also disenfranchising citizens with laws designed to discourage voting by groups that might...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
This post was originally published on the blog of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. From the lips of Paul Ryan, Chief Spokesman of Blame-the-Poor politics, came a curious mea culpa just last week: He should not have referred to hard-working Americans trying to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[vimeo 160296205 w=500 h=281] Rev. William Barber, best known for leading North Carolina's Moral Monday movement, is launching a 15-state tour of the country, called "The Revival: Time for a Moral Revolution of Values." Denise Oliver Velez, writing at Daily Kos, in...
