by Leo Gerard | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog
In Anacortes, Wash., last week, approximately 200 Tesoro workers began picketing the oil refinery where an explosion incinerated seven of their co-workers five years earlier. Butch Cleve walks that picket line, serving now as strike captain for the USW local union at...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Greek Crisis
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has written a letter asking Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to explain her inaction and the Fed’s silence on Greece’s stand against austerity. The stakes are too high for the U.S. to let Greece go it alone. "Make it clear to the...
by Bill Scher | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog, Health, Populist Majority
Over at Real Clear Politics, I responded to the John Judis essay in National Journal, in which he argues that there is an "Emerging Republican Advantage" that could give the GOP total control of Washington in 2016. While some have argued that demographic changes will...
by Dean Baker | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog, Economy
For years people have been running around Washington yelling that the United States was at risk of becoming Greece. There may actually be a basis for such concerns, but not for the reason usually given. The standard story of the United States becoming Greece is that...
by Bernie Horn | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Last week’s column explained the science behind political stubbornness. Essentially, our brains are hard-wired to engage in “confirmation bias.” Further, our opponents get a blast of dopamine and feel pleasure after they rebut our arguments—even when that rebuttal is...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog, Economy
We have become a profoundly unequal society. That reality is explored in new detail in a recent study from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). Even more importantly, the INET study shows that it will take a dramatic shift in policy to restore the...
