by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The great Thomas "Mustache" Friedman is perhaps best known for encouraging the invasion of Iraq (and subsequent resistance insurgency, civil war, thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths, eventually leading to the formation of ISIS – plus the...
by Bill Scher | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Pope Francis is preparing to deliver a major "encyclical," or address to clergy, that declares preventing a climate crisis to be a moral imperative. This will be a landmark moment: the marriage of faith and science by one of the world's most influential religious...
by Richard Long | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog, Education
Tyrone Hankerson, a graduating senior at Howard University, is in a particularly good position to see the impact of today’s student loan debt crisis firsthand – even though he has managed to head into graduation without student debt overhanging him personally. That is...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Last week, in "Government Sweatshops: A Time for the President to Act," Robert Borosage wrote about federal government contract employees working for poverty wages: This week in Washington, hundreds of low wage federal government contract workers walked off their...
by Donald Kaul | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
What started out as righteous protest over the death of a young black man in the hands of Baltimore cops (he had been accused of “making eye contact with a police officer”) quickly degenerated into a full-scale riot. By nightfall the city was on fire, its hopes for a...
by Harvey J Kaye | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog
On May 5, 1886, thousands of Milwaukee workers marched peacefully on the huge Bay View Rolling Mills as part of a nationwide effort to bring about the eight-hour day. On orders from Gov. Jeremiah Rusk, the state militia fired, killing seven. This was the...
