by Richard Eskow | Feb 18, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Cultural references may seem frivolous in the face of a financial crisis, but the Eurozone's Greek crisis is at least as much cultural as it is economic in nature. It's partly an anthropology problem: Europe's negotiators are under the spell of a German-driven...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Woe to the American president who says anything sensible on the subject of religion. President Obama forgot that unwritten rule recently at the National Prayer Breakfast when he pointed out what an eighth-grader could tell you: that acts of violence have been...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast track trade promotion legislation is likely to be introduced soon and will be used to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement – but the public knows very little about what this would mean to them. To help get the word out, there will be a...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
The federal agency that investigates refinery catastrophes released its final report late last month on the massive fire, volatile vapor release and toxic smoke plume at Chevron’s Richmond, Calif., refinery in 2012 that imperiled 19 workers and sickened 15,000...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog
Polls show Democrats want a contest, not a coronation, for their presidential nomination. The press yearns for a primary contest, if only to have something to cover. A raft of reasons are floated for why a challenge would be useful, most of them spurious. Hillary...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
More than 50 years ago, Alabama governor George Wallace literally stood “in the schoolhouse door,” to prevent the integration of the University of Alabama. Wallace argued that “states’ rights” allowed Alabama to keep its schools segregated, and that the federal...
