by Leo Gerard | Apr 22, 2014 | Blog
Republicans in America suffer a crippling anxiety. It’s the terrible fear of corporations paying poor workers too much. The GOP is so afraid that the nation’s lowest wage earners will get a raise that Republican politicians across the country are working overtime to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 22, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The New York Times editorial board finally gets it right about trade in its Sunday editorial, "This Time, Get Global Trade Right." Some excerpts: Many Americans have watched their neighbors lose good-paying jobs as their employers sent their livelihoods to China. Over...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 21, 2014 | Blog
The housing market is supposedly recovering, yet the homeownership rate is dropping. Meanwhile rents in urban areas were already high but now are absolutely skyrocketing. What’s going on? As millions lost their homes many of the houses were and are being bought up by...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 21, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
We are headed into a national reckoning. To paraphrase the unlamented Donald Rumsfeld, there are the known knowns and the known unknowns. We know that America is reaching new levels of extreme inequality. We know that from the founders on, our wisest leaders cautioned...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 18, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
What do you call it when an anti-Semite and white supremacist goes on a shooting spree at not one, but two Jewish community facilities, killing three people? If you’re the U.S. media you call it anything, but terrorism. With a barrage of bullets and a cry of “Heil...
by Bill Scher | Apr 17, 2014 | Blog
Yesterday, pro-immigration Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart told the Washington Post's Greg Sargent, "I’m convinced that if we don’t get it [immigration reform] done by the August break, the president, who is feeling a lot of pressure from having not done anything on...
