by Dave Johnson | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog
For six years, Republicans in Washington have blocked almost every effort to improve conditions and wages for working people. Around the country, cities and states are no longer waiting for Washington to act, and are taking things into their own hands. They have...
by Bill Moyers | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog, Economy
From "Moyers and Company," November 28, 2014 Let’s talk one more time about why inequality matters. Some people say it doesn’t, but they’re living in an ideological fairyland on the far side of the looking glass. In the real world, inequality is a deep and divisive...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 30, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
Many Democrats examining what happened in the 2014 midterms are asking "what did the voters want?" But the right question is why did only 36.4 percent of potential voters bother to register and vote? Obviously Democrats did not give those voters a good enough reason...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 27, 2014 | Blog
As our family gathers this Thanksgiving, I am struck by the poetry and truth in the president’s words in the speech announcing his immigration initiative: “We know the heart of the stranger. We were strangers once, too.” For my family, it began in 1906 when my...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 26, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, the only thing worse than the Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, was the right-wing reaction to that decision. Many of us dreaded what we all but knew would be a decision not to indict. Some of us...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 26, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
The election is over. Congress is back in Washington. The first order of business after the election is to give big tax breaks to the corporations – $450 billion worth. Fortunately, President Obama is trying to do something about this. Tax Extenders Every year...
