by Robert Borosage | Nov 24, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The President’s historic executive action on immigration has been greeted with scripted Republican outrage, from threats to close the government (again), block all presidential appointees (what’s new?), and riots in the streets (see #coburnriots on twitter for...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 24, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Rev. William Barber II's new book, "Forward Together: A Moral Message To The Nation," traces the advance of the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina, which rose up in response to the right-wing takeover of the North Carolina state government in 2012. But what it...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 21, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, President Obama punk’d the GOP on immigration, leaving them caught between Latino voters and their wingnut base. And there’s not much they can do about it. Thursday night, President Obama executed one of the most brilliant moves ever ignored by...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 21, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Walmart runs commercials about how great they are for American workers, in part because they sell TVs manufactured by Element Electronics that are supposedly "Assembled in the USA." (Wait ... isn't the "Walmart model" of selling cheap goods from China the reason...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 21, 2014 | Blog, Trade
"My experience is that the greatest aid to efficiency of labor is a long line of [unemployed] men waiting at the gate." — Magnate Samuel Insull, 1920s Economists strive for "efficiency" in our economy. "Efficiency" means that the things we buy are produced at their...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 21, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
Lately Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been talking about President Obama's economic appointees – and it sounds like she's pretty fed up. Consider these words, from a Huffington Post essay she published earlier this week: “I believe President Obama deserves deference in...
