by Robert Borosage | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision, The New Populism
The race for the Democratic nomination for president was transformed today as populist stalwart Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy. The mainstream media immediately focused on the horse race – assessing Sanders' standing in the polls (low), money...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority
At a time when polls often show a high level of skepticism and even antipathy toward government, progressive pollster Celinda Lake offered some contrarian advice Wednesday to the "Families First: Good Jobs for All" meeting sponsored by the Center for Community Change:...
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...
