by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog
Hillary Clinton's op-ed in The New York Times Monday on how she would handle Wall Street and financial reform as president appears so far to have landed with a thud. There is little evidence that it has sparked the kind of political debate that would be warranted by a...
by Bill Scher | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, Climate
We're close to an international climate agreement that most agree will be both a major step forward and insufficient to avert a catastrophe. Energy will quickly turn to what should be our next steps. The rival Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns lay out two...
by Robert Reich | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
Just like that, Pfizer has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan and move its corporate headquarters from New York to Ireland. That way it will pay less tax. Ireland’s tax rate is less than half that of United States. Ian Read,...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The congressionally created Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy (LAC) has just released a scathing report that urges President Obama "in the strongest possible terms" to send the Trans-Pacific Partnership "back to the negotiating table"...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Many people have come to believe politicians say what they need to say to win, and then turn on them. If Hillary Clinton wants to win the Democratic nomination and inspire people to vote for her in the general election, she must find ways to overcome this voter...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Mass shootings in Colorado and California this week, brought out the worst in wingnuts this week, and reminded us that our biggest terrorist threats still come from right here at home. Colorado When Robert Dear opened fire in a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic the...
