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...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In Ferguson, Missouri, citizens and activists prepare for injustice, while government and law enforcement prepare for outraged reaction to injustice. But what about preparing for the justice Ferguson, and America, really needs? As it waits to hear whether the grand...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog, Education
Every school day in the Lincoln Park community on the North Side of Chicago greets students with well-appointed institutions that include some of the best facilities that American public schools have to offer. Click over to the Yelp ratings for the elementary schools...
