by Robert Borosage | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
“Patriotism," as Samuel Johnson warned, "is the last refuge for a scoundrel.” As the administration has ratcheted up the pressure to pass fast track authority that will grease the skids for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)accords, it increasingly invokes national...
by Richard Eskow | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
When asked about Baltimore last week, President Obama said this: “... if we think that we’re just gonna send the police to do the dirty work of containing the problems that arise (in our inner cities), without as a nation and as a society saying what can we do to...
by Roger Hickey | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Education
Last week Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Senate’s foremost advocate for lowering student debt and lowering the cost of college, received a petition signed by more than 240,000 people. The petition called on Congress and President Obama to cancel all student debt – all...
by Terrance Heath | May 1, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, conservatives were confronted with two of their worst fears: gay people getting married and black people getting angry. Then, as if things weren't bad enough, the federal government began preparations to invade Texas. Baltimore Freddie Gray, 25, was walking...
by Dave Johnson | May 1, 2015 | Blog, Trade
Khalil Bendib/OtherWords If you make things and sell them, you do better over time than if you borrow to buy things. If you send jobs and factories out of the country, you end up with devastated cities like Baltimore. Sure, a few people get rich from that, but 99...
by Robert Borosage | May 1, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Tweeting that “America needs a political revolution,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders threw himself Thursday into the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Sanders is in many ways the mirror image of Hillary Clinton, the favored candidate in the race. She...
