by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
You don't get to be an actor by being shy, so it should not have surprised me that Olivia Russell would do something attention-getting while she was serving me and a guest earlier this week at the Carolina Kitchen, a small chain restaurant in Washington's Brentwood...
by Bill Scher | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog
Three Republican Senators up for re-election this year, Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Susan Collins (Maine) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) voted for the bipartisan immigration reform bill despised by the anti-immigrant right-wing. And as of last night's victory by Sen....
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog, Education, Winning Issues for 2014
A common admonition progressives have gotten used to hearing over the years is to support more conservative Democratic candidates because "Republicans are worse." This admonition makes some sense in electoral politics, when, in most cases, progressives face a ballot...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
Preliminary reports say that a $16 to $17 billion settlement will soon be announced between the Justice Department and Bank of America. That would break the record for the largest bank settlement in history, set less than a year ago by a $13 billion agreement between...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 7, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The right-wing argument that we shouldn't increase the minimum wage because doing so especially hurts the job prospects of young and low-skilled workers is not standing up to scrutiny. The latest evidence comes from two University of Delaware economists who have...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 7, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Should populists declare victory and go home? Despite money-drenched politics, Washington gridlock, the richest few capturing virtually all the income growth in the economy and corporations deserting the country to avoid taxes, the fanciful notion that populists have...
