by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog
The Washington Post has reported that Trump “has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter, and ordering...
by Negin Owliaei | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog
Photo credit: VOCAL-NY November’s Blue Wave didn’t only take place on a federal level. Democrats flipped hundreds of state legislature seats, including in New York, where they took control of the Senate for the first time in a decade. Now, the activists across the...
by Tara Raghuveer | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog
Our nation is in a full-blown housing emergency. Today, a person working full time in a minimum-wage job cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment - anywhere in the United States. More than half of all Americans spend a third or more of their income on housing. Only one...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 11, 2019 | Blog
Corporatists have sought to shame two clear-eyed lawmakers in recent weeks for daring to offer prescriptions to cure America's rampant economic anxiety. “Stupid” is what they tried to call new Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she became the youngest...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 8, 2019 | Blog
Andrew Leigh, a member of the Australian parliament, has a side gig. He just happens to be a working economist. Other lawmakers may spend their spare hours making cold calls for campaign cash. Leigh spends his doing research — on why our modern economies are leaving...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jan 7, 2019 | Blog
Three weeks have passed since Donald Trump shut down much of the government because Congress won’t give him $5.6 billion in taxpayer money to build 200 miles of his illusory Wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Let’s be clear on one thing: There is no Wall. There...
