by Dave Johnson | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
How much money are corporations putting into elections? Which corporations are putting in how much? Are corporations that are looking for contracts giving money to politicians who can push contracts to them? Are corporations channeling money from foreign interests...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
One of the most striking contrasts between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in the first Democratic debate is their starkly different theories of how change will take place. Yet it is this difference that is at the center of the Sanders surge, and particularly of...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Education
A lot of the commentary following the announcement by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that he would be leaving his post at the end of the year was devoted to praising his apparent devotion to children. An extensive profile of Duncan and his tenure in Politico,...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The Democratic presidential debate between Lincoln Chafee, Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, and Jim Webb was barely over before the usual post-debate debate over who “won” began. There’s a case to be made that the real winners of the Democratic debate were the...
by Bill Scher | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/CdFxaKNd6xc[/fve] Canada's Liberal Party – nine years after losing the prime ministership and four years after being relegated to third-party status – is on the cusp of regaining control of the government Monday. If so, it has John Maynard Keynes...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is complete, but we still are not allowed to know what is in it. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has called on the President to release the text of TPP to the public. The Hill has the story, in "Trumka calls for immediate...
