by Emily Schwartz Greco | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Progressive Vision
Bleak news for fossil fuels is piling up higher than an icy Washington snowbank in the capital’s most precipitation-challenged state. Peabody Energy, the nation’s biggest coal company, is limping toward bankruptcy after its shares sank 99 percent over the past two...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman went to California's Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and aquarium to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Froman claimed that TPP would be good for the environment, and Monterey's local economy. A trade...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
There's a dangerous myth being perpetrated that the American public has given up on publican education. Those making this claim point to the swelling enrollments of charter schools and the spread of school vouchers that allow parents to transfer their children out of...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016
Listening to the presidential debates would suggest that the only foreign policy challenges that the U.S. faces are ISIS, Syria and a touch of Ukraine. Accelerating catastrophic climate changes – already costing hundreds of billions in damage and destabilizing...
by Bill Scher | Feb 17, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
In the Democratic presidential nomination race, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are in a tight race for Nevada, but Clinton is far ahead in South Carolina and 10 of the early March contests. A Sanders win in Nevada could change those numbers, but the likelihood...
by Bill Scher | Feb 17, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Conventional wisdom states that Republicans have every political reason to block anyone President Obama nominates for the Supreme Court. Any Republican who voted for an Obama nominee could face a primary challenge. The people who care most about judicial battles are...
