by Leo Gerard | Nov 24, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
This Thanksgiving, in dining rooms across America, the turkey will be smaller, the stuffing more meager, the pumpkin pie sliced thinner. Gratitude will be given. But roiling just below the surface, for far too many families, will be economic anxiety. The vast majority...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 24, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Regardless of what a House-Senate panel (that has been reportedly negotiating through the Thanksgiving holiday) finally decides, the surface transportation bill that Congress hammers together and put on President Obama's desk is going to be a blown opportunity to...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog, Tax Reform
The pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer will acquire pharmaceutical corporation Allergan in a deal valued at $160 billion. My colleague Richard Eskow called this combination of Pfizer (the maker of Viagra) and Allergan (the maker of Botox) "a merger of false desire and...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
At the last Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton inadvertently sparked a firestorm when she invoked her woman donors and 9/11 as a defense to Bernie Sanders calling out her Wall Street donors. As Molly Ball tweeted, playing both the women’s card and the 9/11 card in one...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 21, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Jobs and Growth
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by Terrance Heath | Nov 20, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
In the worst of times, we need leaders who call us to heed “the better angels of our nature.” In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, right-wing media, officeholders, and candidates have instead embodied the term “ugly American.” “Ugly American” is a pejorative...
