by Bill Scher | Sep 24, 2014 | Blog, Climate
Last week I noted that "Capping Carbon Costs Nothing", which is something we already knew but received renewed attention with the release of a new report from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. As The New York Times summarized, while there is some...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 23, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
The Obama administration took executive action Monday to fight the trend of corporations "abandoning their U.S. citizenship" using the "inversion" tactic. The move earned praise today from a leading opponent of inversions, Citizens for Tax Fairness, which called the...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 23, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The GOP is working desperately to deny the right to vote to citizens it doesn't like. You know, poor people, black people, Hispanic people, old people, female people, especially people it believes are inclined to vote for Democrats. Republican politicians have hatched...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 23, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Writing on our blog and in Real Clear Politics, my Campaign for America's Future colleague Bill Scher dismisses Zephyr Teachout's call for progressive primary challenges against conservative Democrats. Scher argues the left should focus instead on "gaining influence...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 23, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
The Republican political strategy has been to obstruct efforts to help the economy for everyone but the wealthiest few, and then campaign on complaints that the economy isn't helping anyone but the wealthiest few. It's working. In President Obama's July 12 weekly...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 22, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/mQGtZnitGB0[/fve] This past Sunday was declared "Freedom Sunday" by a coalition of civil rights and religious organizations to rally African Americans and others to register to vote. That's all to the good, but Maya Rockeymoore, CEO of the Center...
