by Joy Blackwood | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Letter From DC, Policy
Photo credit: Dhilung Kirat / flickr / cc It’s March in Washington, D.C., which means the cherry blossoms will bloom any day now. Our nation’s capital would be teeming with visitors and excitement under normal circumstances. The mood here, however, is subdued. In...
by Andrew Tripp | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: Max Goldberg / Wikimedia Commons / cc One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked. At the time, I had been doing what union organizers do when...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 28, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: AFGE / flickr / cc Wisconsin has become early 2020’s Exhibit A for political fights surrounding the updating of statewide voter lists, where escalating court battles over conflicting law, procedures and underlying data could lead to removing thousands of...
by David Goodner | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
“I’m hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight, I wonder why,” said Senator Bernie Sanders during the presidential candidates' debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “A lot of the issues we’ll be discussing tonight are issues that I raised four years ago.” ...
by Alexa Kasdan | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc As I watched the Democratic debate, like millions of other Americans, I noticed the smug look on Michael Bloomberg’s face when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others challenged him about his treatment of women, stop-and-frisk and...
by David Goodner | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Sen. Bernie Sanders’ electoral victories in the first three early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada make it much more likely that the political revolution will win the Democratic nomination for president and...