by Richard Eskow | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog
The event we celebrate on the Fourth of July is not America’s victory over Great Britain. The British weren’t defeated until September 3, 1783. July 4, 1776 is the day the Continental Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence. That’s the day...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Just in time for mid-term election campaigning, the Supreme Court handed conservatives the perfect opportunity to remind Americans that their number one obsession is policing women’s sex lives by any means necessary. Wingnuts rejoiced. If anyone has forgotten how...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg certainly got it right when she said that the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision is going to create "havoc." And as the repercussions mount, so do the questions, in areas that range from economics and taxation to theology...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The June Bureau of Labor Services jobs report – a higher than expected increase of 288,000 jobs with the unemployment rate declining to 6.1% – provides a splash of good news, following the grim reality of an economy that actually contracted in the first quarter of the...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog, Education
This act is wearing thin. As implementations of Common Core State Standards falter around the country, supporters of the new academic benchmarks continue a sort of dog-and-pony show to reinforce the message to "stay the course." The latest such example came from the...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The ruling of the Supreme Court’s conservative gang of five in Harris v. Quinn is a direct attack on the ability of workers to organize and bargain collectively. The ruling, in a case invented by the right-wing National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, is but...
