by Bill Scher | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog
When 47 Republican Senators wrote an open letter to the Iranian government designed to undercut President Obama's negotiating strategy, they not only were excoriated at home for mischievous meddling in foreign policy, they also were humiliated when the gambit didn't...
by Gloria Totten | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
So far this year… ● The Oklahoma House passed legislation to eliminate AP American History classes from public schools because, right-wingers said, the course is too negative about America. ● The Tennessee House voted to designate the Holy Bible as “the...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
To give voice to 35 workers killed on the job over the past 35 years at a massive refinery in Texas City, hundreds of surviving family members, co-workers and friends gathered there last month to erect white crosses marked with their names. They conducted the ceremony...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Power is the ability to control, to tell what to do, to get your way. Corporations have a lot of power over working people in our country now, and they might be about to get a lot more. The proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) tell us that it will have...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog, Education
This week Corinthian Colleges Inc. announced that it had “ceased substantially all operations and discontinued instruction” at its remaining campuses. That should have brought the indebtedness of its many defrauded students to an end. This "educational institution"...
by Robert Reich | Apr 27, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
A security guard recently told me he didn’t know how much he’d be earning from week to week because his firm kept changing his schedule and his pay. “They just don’t care,” he said. A traveler I met in the Dallas Fort-Worth Airport last week said she’d been there...
