by Jeff Bryant | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog
Conservatives may believe they accomplished what they've endeavored to do for decades with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Janus v AFSCME, which undermined the ability of public-sector unions to raise funds from workers, but they may have also unintentionally unified...
by George Goehl | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog
Donald Trump’s choice to separate migrant children from their parents unleashed a flood of outrage across the political spectrum. While he has been forced to step back from separating families at the border, the administration's solution is to imprison...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog
American elites have reinforced a global order in which the “winners” are protected, and the “losers” are ignored. Donald Trump’s election stunned the national-security establishment, which the precocious Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national-security adviser, once...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog
As former CIA Director John Brennan just stated, "Donald Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It was nothing short of treasonous." And as the editors of The Washington Post wrote,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 16, 2018 | Blog
The United States ended the 20th century on a roll — for the rich. Between 1973 and 2000, the nation’s most prosperous 1 percent tripled their incomes, after taking inflation into account. The even more prosperous top tenth of that 1 percent did quite a bit better....
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog
Immediately after Betsy DeVos took over as U.S. Secretary of Education, numerous education policy experts expressed doubts she'd have much success in enacting her well-documented agenda to impose her brand of Christian religion on public schools and direct more public...
