by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
When Wall Street and the giant corporations want something from Congress, Congress finds a way to give it to them. With only a few hours notice, the House of Representatives snuck in another fast track vote, and it passed 218-208. The bill now must return to the...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Education
For years, there's been an agreement – a “Washington consensus” – among Beltway policy makers and political elites that America’s schools are in “crisis” and only a punitive program of standards, testing and accountability can remedy it. Both Republicans and Democrats...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Tax Reform
A new report released Wednesday that Walmart is dodging taxes by stashing $76 billion of profits outside of the country using 78 subsidiaries in 15 tax havens raises a question: Why is Congress and the White House considering policies that reward tax dodgers like...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Wall Street and the big corporations don't like to lose. It looks like The Money has told the Republicans to try again to get fast track through and they are preparing to vote before we can rally and organize people to try to stop it again. News reports say the House...
by Bill Scher | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Twenty years ago Pope John Paul II delivered an encyclical, an authoritative letter to all Catholic bishops, that urged them to champion a "culture of life," by opposing abortion, contraception, euthanasia, war and capital punishment. Republican politicians quickly...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 17, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
After threatening to run for years, real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his candidacy for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. For real, this time. For years, Donald Trump has been one of the most famous non-candidates for...
