by Jeff Bryant | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Education
Folks are disgusted with Donald Trump's "University" that lured students – "with tantalizing promises of riches," according to the New York Times – into taking on huge amounts of debt to earn real estate degrees that were "basically worthless," according to an...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Trade
[fve]https://youtu.be/Sadt-sWxNDo[/fve] The U.S.-South Korea (KORUS) free trade agreement is now four years old. How's it doing? Out trade deficit with that country has doubled, costing tens and hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs. The Office of the U.S. Trade...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
Polls are open Tuesday in four cities that are listed among the 10 "worst cities for black Americans" and two of "America's most segregated cities," according to reports published last year by 24/7 Wall St. The four worst cities for black people are all in Illinois....
by Digby | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
I wrote this for Salon this morning: This past week we saw an escalation in the building of Donald Trump's authoritarian campaign for president. After a tumultuous week in before in which he won big after having refused to disavow the KKK, he appeared on the debate...
by Bill Scher | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog, Climate
Perhaps the most baffling aspect of the Republican presidential race is the obsession with immigration, led by Donald Trump, despite the fact that undocumented immigrant levels are at a 13-year low. But since the Republican Party is increasingly detached from the real...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 13, 2016 | Blog, Trade
Our country's "free trade" agreements have followed a framework of trading away our democracy and middle-class prosperity in exchange for letting the biggest corporations dominate. There are those who say any increase in trade is good. But if you close a factory here...
