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...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision against workers in the Janus vs. AFSCME case surprised no one who pays attention to America’s highest judicial panel. Every analyst following the case expected the Supremes to rule against America’s public sector unions. And that’s...
by Tobita Chow | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog
In early March, President Trump announced steel tariffs as part of a protectionist, anti-China economic strategy. Since then, he's put tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese products, and threatens to sanction $200 billion more. Some progressives support these tariffs on...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 11, 2018 | Blog
For Progressives, the stunning upset victory by first-time congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over a prominent incumbent candidate in New York seems to be a sign that a wave of change coming in the midterm elections. But a perhaps bigger, clearer sign of...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog
Multimillionaire Bruce Rauner, the Republican Governor of Illinois, just couldn’t wait to tell his state's workers the U.S. Supreme Court had given them what he considered a gift. Within hours of the court’s ruling in the Janus case, Rauner emailed Illinois state...
by George Goehl | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog
We should be skeptical of the motivation and messengers behind calls for civility. We hear people say that what is happening to migrants in the United States right now is un-American. I wish that were true. Sadly, American history is full of periods where children of...