by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 5, 2019 | Blog
The guardians of our conventional wisdom on taxing the rich have messed up — and they know it. They slacked off. They started believing their own tripe. Average Americans, they assumed, would never ever smile on proposals to raise tax rates on the richest among us....
by Robert Borosage | Mar 4, 2019 | Blog
There is a dizzying array of potential presidential nominees for Democratic primary voters to choose from—so many that they won’t even fit on one debate stage. But there is one basic choice the party will have to make: Will it nominate someone based on perceived...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 3, 2019 | Blog
It took grit to get this far. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer explained that to Congress last week. So, he said, no one in the administration is backing down now. They’ve managed to confront Beijing, a trade renegade, and do it with a powerful tool that...
by Lizeth Chacon | Mar 1, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Organizing, Politics
The 2020 presidential election, for many of us, will be the fight of our lifetime. We need a president who will take bold action on the issues shaping the lives of people in the multiracial working class. Design by Matt Whit That means building an economy that works...
by Roger Hickey | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog
Suddenly Americans are debating big ideas that used to be off the table. New ways to raise taxes on the rich and big corporations have been proposed by candidates Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. A Medicare-style public health system to expand...
by Mehrdad Azemun | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Politics
Here in Chicago, our beloved City by the Lake, the People’s Wave is gaining momentum. What began in Philadelphia and New York last November continues in Chicago, as more machine politicians fall by the wayside and voters choose an unprecedented number of progressive...
