by Hedrick Smith | Dec 15, 2015 | Democracy, Tax Reform
If you wonder what price we all pay for corporate money flooding political campaigns ($1.7 billion in 2014), see Exhibit A — the decision by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to renounce its U.S. citizenship and become an Irish company in order to duck U.S. corporate income...
by Bill Scher | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
Presidential candidate Marco Rubio has a big problem. As I previously detailed here, in 2013 Rubio tragicomically botched his attempt to lead on immigration reform, angering both pro- and anti-immigrant camps. For Republican primary voters who oppose citizenship for...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 5, 2015 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Off-year elections are almost never good for progressives, and 2015 is no exception. But this off-year election held some surprising victories for progressives in Maine, Ohio, Washington and elsewhere that could lay the foundation for more victories to come. Earlier...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Ohioans are voting Tuesday on a constitutional amendment to ban gerrymandering that could cure much of what ails our government and fix our broken political process. Ohio residents are voting on Issue One, which passed the Ohio General Assembly as HJR 12 last year,...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
In Seattle, Washington, a ballot initiative that could wrest power away from corporate interests and big money donors and change the way we do democracy comes up for a vote. On Tuesday, Seattle residents will vote on Initiative 122. The ballot initiative is the...
by Eric Lotke | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
"In my sixteen years as a regulator," said Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, "this is the clearest, most egregious case of market failure I have seen." On Thursday the FCC voted to put it right. The decision vindicates a decades-long...
