by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog, Climate
According to the Washington Post, President Obama "skinned the cat" and used executive powers "to press the most sweeping attack on air pollution in U.S. history." Oil- and coal-backed conservatives can't stand it. Washington Post, Obama’s record: Environmental agenda...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog, Economy
A group of workers whose jobs are being outsourced to China is touring the "rust belt." They are trying to make an election point. But what about the day after the election? Sensata Workers - More Jobs Going To China Two weeks ago I wrote about the workers at the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog, China Currency Showdown
Monday's final campaign debate focuses on foreign policy. Will it focus on our policy of running huge trade deficits with China? Every dollar of trade deficits makes our country a dollar poorer. That trade deficit is the deficit that our Washington elites should be...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog, Education
The online petition site Change.org is best known for enabling individuals to use the viral qualities of the internet to speak truth to power, such as when a 22-year-old nanny used the site to pressure a big bank to drop its debit fee, and an Eagle Scout challenged...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog
“I agree,” said Mitt Romney, and so he did, with the same passionate intensity with which he previously scorned the president’s foreign policies from one corner of the country to another. On Iran, on Afghanistan, on drones, on Libya, on using military force, on...
