by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Jobs and Growth
In the last few days Senate Republicans have voted against everything they have promised in public to sell the Keystone pipeline. They said the pipeline is about U.S. jobs, yet they voted against U.S. steel and supplier jobs in the pipeline supply chain. They said the...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, Education
A curious thing happened this week on Capital Hill: A politician said something about education that made sense. The "something" didn't come from President Obama. In the president's annual State of the Union address, "K-12 policy largely took a back seat," Education...
by Miya Pontes | Jan 22, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
Pocan and Ellison to Introduce Right to Vote Constitutional Amendment In an effort to undo the work being done in numerous states and counties to disenfranchise groups of voters, two progressive House members are aiming to make a promise that is implicit in the...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 22, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the League of Conservation Voters and 41 other environmental groups sent a letter to Congress this week, asking them to oppose "fast track" trade promotion authority for upcoming trade agreements like the...
by Bill Scher | Jan 22, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Over the course of President Obama's State of the Union addresses, he has become rhetorically bolder and more expansive on the subject of climate. In his first couple of speeches, climate was mentioned as part of the laundry list of bills he was trying to get through...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 22, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Today's American right is burdened with a highly specialized and hyper-amplified sense of outrage. That outrage was triggered during this week's State of the Union speech, especially by the president's off-the-cuff response to a group of Republicans who sarcastically...
