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...
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...