by Dave Johnson | Jan 27, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
US Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman testified before the Senate Tuesday. He was there to push Congress to pass Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), so new trade agreements can get pushed through. Protesters disrupted the hearing. The people are trying...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 27, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Reaganomics, the plot to appease the rich and condemn the rest, got its comeuppance last week in President Obama's State of the Union speech. The President asked: "Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well?" That's the trickle-down economy...
by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Richard Eskow | Jan 27, 2015 | Blog, Education
MaryGreenSwig Steven L.Swig RichardEskow President Obama's proposal for tuition-free community college education, and the broader discussion that it has inspired, confirms our belief that it is time for a comprehensive solution to a $1.3 trillion problem: student debt...
by Bill Scher | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODbmKWOyAZI[/fve] Many people are having a good laugh watching Sarah Palin's unintentionally hilarious speech to a conservative gathering in Iowa over the weekend. But Palin is never going to get anywhere near the White House....
by Dave Johnson | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Trade
Negotiators working on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) convened today in New York City. Even the location was kept secret until the last possible minute, but hundreds of trade, labor, environmental, health, communities of color, anti-GMO and food justice,...
by Bernie Horn | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
For years, conservatives used “wedge issues” to split moderates from progressives—measures like criminalizing flag burning, cutting “welfare,” and (until recently) banning same-sex marriage. They still do that, of course, but the Tea Party has forced conservatives to...
