by Dave Johnson | Aug 3, 2015 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The latest round of negotiations to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "trade" agreement ended without a deal being completed. The negotiators will try again as soon as the end of August. [fve]https://youtu.be/3O_Sbbeqfdw[/fve] TPP is the largest "trade"...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 3, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
“Taking from the successful people to provide for those that aren’t isn’t the solution,” as White House hopeful Jeb Bush pronounced this past spring. “The solution is, How do you build capacity so people can achieve earned success?” The core assumption behind this...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy
This weekend gave us another one of those every-four-year stories about this presidential election being the one in which the Republican Party finally breaks through and wins more than a one-in-10 share of the black vote. The latest version of this story came from The...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
A beloved lion named Cecil was lured out of his sanctuary in Zimbabwe, and killed by an American hunter. The world mourned, and wingnuts roared that the lion’s death drew attention away from their scam to bring down Planned Parenthood. Walter Palmer, an American...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Administration officials are desperately trying to wrap-up Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in the next few days or so. If they can get it done right now, it enables a timeline for pushing it through Congress by the end of the year — before the public can...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Trade
Conservatives deride using government to help American companies export their goods as "picking winners and losers," even when the winners are American exporters and workers. So Republicans have closed the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, hopefully temporarily. The Ex-Im...
