by Terrance Heath | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, President Obama gave a national landmark its name back. Wingnuts tried to make a mountain out of that molehill. President Obama made a historic trip to Alaska this week. What made it historic? Well, while there the president announced that he would restore...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics job report – 173,000 jobs created in August with headline unemployment edging down to 5.1 percent – is strong enough to stoke the noisy debate over whether the Federal Reserve should begin to raise interest rates despite the turmoil...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday that the July goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $41.9 billion. This is down from a revised $45.2 billion in June. This is an increase from May's enormous, humongous $40.9 billion trade deficit. We had...
by Jim Hightower | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Some days, I get an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair. My latest outbreak was triggered by a New York Times opinion piece by Peter Georgescu, the former chairman of the giant PR outfit Young & Rubicam. He issued a clarion call for his corporate peers to...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog
Jitu Brown is a mountain of a man, tall and broad shouldered – the kind of person whose presence you notice when he walks into a room and whose deep, resonate voice commands your attention. When you shake his hand, you can't help notice your palm completely disappears...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Sixty years after Emmett Till was killed for daring to assert his humanity, African Americans are still being killed for doing the same. Charles M. Blow hears echoes of Emmett Till’s killing in the cycle so often repeated in the news today: “Young lives are lost, the...
