by Robert Borosage | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Populism2015, Progressive Vision
When Hillary Clinton expressed doubts about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and then issued a call for new Wall Street reforms, reporters suggested she was trying to mute her differences with Bernie Sanders in the run-up to the first Democratic presidential...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
I’ve experience one shooting in my life. I know that no one truly knows what they would do when suddenly faced with their mortality. Ben Carson had a gun pointed at him once. He should know better. On October 1, Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer shot and killed nine...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Hillary Clinton gave a big boost to opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership when, in an interview on the PBS NewsHour Wednesday, she voiced her opposition to the just-completed "trade" treaty. Clinton joins fellow Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Education
Arne Duncan's surprise announcement to leave his post as secretary of education in December is making headlines and driving lots of commentary, but an important story lost in the media clutter happened three days before he gave notice. On that day, Duncan rattled the...
by Jim Hightower | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Economy
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, here’s one worth a thousand times that. It’s a shot of three Volkswagen board members, gathered for a press conference to announce the resignation of Martin Winterkorn. VW’s disgraced CEO was forced out after the auto giant was...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Setting the stage for The White House Summit on Worker Voice, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) today introduced The Workplace Democracy Act. According to Sanders' office, this legislation "would make it easier for workers to join unions and...
