by Richard Eskow | May 14, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
Even as the Campaign for America’s Future prepares for its May 22 conference on the New Populism in Washington, attacks on populism keep coming from all directions. One of the latest salvos to be publicized comes in an anecdote about former President Bill Clinton. As...
by Terrance Heath | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The conditions that made Ferguson, Mo., a powder keg waiting for a spark didn’t happen overnight, and it will take more than putting cameras on cops to prevent the “next” Ferguson. An NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) forum — “The...
by Bill Scher | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Climate
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJORBRpOPM[/fve] Four years ago, West Virginia's Joe Manchin got elected to the U.S. Senate after pinning to a tree the House "cap-and-trade" bill, and shooting it. Now, Manchin is acknowledging that climate is a problem. Politico...
by Leo Gerard | May 13, 2014 | Blog
The GOP wants America to divorce Obamacare so badly that Republicans are willing to stoop to the tactics of prototypical evil mothers-in-law – nitpicking, backbiting, and straight up lying. Just last week, Republicans got caught in a lie about Obamacare very publicly...
by Jeff Bryant | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Education
So this one's personal for me. The day they bused the poor kids to my school was the first time I'd ever come face to face with children my age who were so poor they weren't properly clothed. It was the first time – in a society where I saw separate water fountains...
by Dave Johnson | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
There is a new populist movement that is driving minimum wage and other reforms across the country. The public wants the minimum wage increased, and cities and states are acting on their own to bypass D.C. and get this moving. Does It Matter What The Public Wants?...
