by Emily Schwartz Greco | Sep 9, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Progressive Vision
Battles are raging over whether local government officials have a religious right to refuse to marry same-sex couples. And the federal government may shut down over a dispute concerning funding for Planned Parenthood’s non-abortion reproductive health services. As if...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 9, 2015 | Blog, Education
As schools across Pennsylvania open their doors for the new school year, there’s one district in the state where teachers will be hard at work even though they’re not likely to get paid. The teachers are actually already on the job, having reported for work a week...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 9, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, seemed set to become a full-fledged right-wing martyr/saint. Then a funny thing happened on the way to her canonization. Last week, Davis was jailed for contempt of court....
by Dave Johnson | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog, Climate
While the world warms, the climate deniers are out in force, trying not only to sabotage American efforts to fight climate change but also to undermine international talks. We are witnessing a spectacle of corruption, and the stakes literally could not be higher. It...
by Larry Cohen | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog
On a hot Iowa Labor Day weekend everyone was feeling the Bern! Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders himself set the pace on Friday and Saturday as he met with Native Americans on their reservation, and walked a picket line at Ingredion in Cedar Rapids. It...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
Instead of picnicking, Steelworkers in six states spent this Labor Day picketing the gates of a dozen Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) specialty mills. These 2,200 Steelworkers are not on strike. They never even took a strike vote to threaten a walkout. ATI locked...
