by Bill Scher | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Populism2015
America's clean energy market continues to grow. Our wind power capacity is estimated to grow 85 percent by 2020. The U.S. Energy Department touts that "every 3 weeks the U.S. installs more solar power than in all of 2008." The wave even reaches conservative states...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — and the rigged "Fast Track" process designed to pass it before the public has a chance to react — has become a new "third rail" for progressives and the activist Democratic "base." (This is also true on the right, by the way.)...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog, Populism2015, Progressive Vision
A populist energy is building in America, and beginning to drive the debate in the Democratic Party. It’s escalating both in the battle of ideas and in action on the ground. It’s starting to propel change at the state and local level, and challenge the limits of the...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
This week, wingnuts tried to frighten Americans into believing that gays were going to take away their religious freedom, and learned — in Indiana, Arkansas, and a few other states — that those old tricks don’t work anymore. Discrimination Doesn’t Pay Ever since the...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
The Indiana Toll Road begins at the Illinois border, just west of Hammond, and runs past a series of cities that have been hard-hit by the collapse of American manufacturing. They include Gary, where most of the factories have long since closed (its most famous export...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report underwhelmed – a gain of 126,000 jobs, the weakest since December 2013 – with unemployment staying at 5.5 percent. Estimates for January and February were lowered, subtracting 69,000 jobs. Pundits blame it on the...
