by Jock Toles | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog
Jock Toles in Chicago. Photo credit: Diego Morales, Chicago DSA The polar vortex froze Chicago’s city streets with temperatures as low as minus 23 degrees. It was subzero for 52 hours straight. This was hard on everyone, but it hit the city’s 80,000 homeless the...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 20, 2019 | Blog
The trade relationship between China and America is destructive: China’s deliberate trade violations drain America’s strength. Beijing is to America what Delilah was to Samson. Chinese trade officials are in Washington, D.C., this week in high-stakes negotiations....
by Adrienne Evans | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, Featured
This President’s Day, I stood with two hundred and fifty Idahoans on the steps of our State Capitol in Boise to protest our president’s demand to build a wall between the United States and the the world. We’re in a national emergency, he insists, one that can only be...
by Alexis Pleus | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog
As a New York State Trooper handcuffed me at our State Capitol, I told him, “I lost my son. This is for him.” Alexis Pleus, founder of TruthPharm, under arrest at the N.Y. State Capitol in Albany Jeff was an amazing kid, a chef, who was 28 when he died of a heroin...
by Miles Mogulescu | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog
Jeff Bezos deserves props for standing up to blackmail by The National Enquirer’s publisher, David Pecker, who threatened to print sexually explicit pictures and texts of the Amazon founder if he refused to issue a false statement that The Enquirer doesn’t have a...
by Deborah Rainey | Feb 13, 2019 | Blog
Deb Rainey and other Monadnock Progressive Alliance members I would love to wake up in the morning and not worry my siblings are having a health crisis. I would like our family to have the peace of mind we all deserve. I have two siblings with debilitating illnesses....