by Dean Baker | Mar 29, 2016 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Lately the media have been going wild mocking Donald Trump’s plans to put 45 percent tariffs on imports from China. They are partly right. It’s not clever to indiscriminately impose large tariffs on major trading partners in violation of existing trade agreements. On...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 29, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/RwMejx5-ftY[/fve] Daniel Kalik, the chief of staff at J Street, a progressive Jewish "pro-peace" organization, discusses which 2016 presidential candidate is best positioned to help Israel and the Palestinians reach a peace agreement. J Street...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 28, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders routed Hillary Clinton in three Western states on Saturday. He isn’t just winning; he’s winning with stunning percentages: Alaska 82-18; Hawaii 70-30; Washington 73-27. He’s taken five of six in the West, and chipped away Clinton’s lead in pledged...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 28, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/bXDmZ7k2Dgo[/fve] Jim Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, explains the "conflict within a conflict within a conflict" in Syria in this segment of the Burning Issues series. Zogby, who also does public opinion polling in the...
by Lori Wallach | Mar 25, 2016 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The high-profile presidential primary revolt against decades of damaging American trade policy finally has forced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) into mainstream media coverage. The usual free-trade-agreement cheerleading squad of chronic-job-offshoring...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 25, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy, Democracy
[fve]https://youtu.be/d4FKwJluPTE[/fve] Berta Cáceres was an indigenous and environmental activist in Honduras who was the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for her success in blocking the Agua Zarca dam project, which would have decimated the communities and...
