by Jeff Bryant | Jan 14, 2016 | Blog, Education
When President Barack Obama recently made an impassioned plea to do something about the proliferation of gun violence in America, he drew upon the images of elementary school children gunned down in Newtown, Connecticut to engage our emotions. "First graders," he...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 14, 2016 | Blog, Health, Progressive Vision
As the Iowa caucuses draw near and as Bernie Sanders closes in on Hillary Clinton in the polls, Clinton has started "attacking" (media word) Sanders' proposals for providing universal health care through a Medicare-for-All plan. The corporate media largely covers the...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Crybabies. That’s the perfect word to describe conservatives' reaction to President Obama’s final State of the Union address — as well as the official GOP response by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. It started even before the president even delivered his address....
by Robert Borosage | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
President Obama transformed his last State of the Union speech last night into his first farewell address. From his opening twitting legislators for being “antsy” to get back to Iowa, the president acknowledged that in an election year, with a bitterly obstructionist...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama gives his last State of the Union speech tonight. Will he provide a positive, progressive message for the future, or will he continue to push the wildly unpopular, corporate/Wall Street-written Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? TPP Unpopular Last week...
by Robert Reich | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
If you haven’t yet seen “The Big Short” – directed and co-written by Adam McKay, based on the non-fiction prize-winning book by Michael Lewis about the housing and credit bubble that triggered the Great Recession — I recommend you do so. Not only is the movie an...
