by Robert Borosage | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Populism2015, Progressive Vision
When Hillary Clinton expressed doubts about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and then issued a call for new Wall Street reforms, reporters suggested she was trying to mute her differences with Bernie Sanders in the run-up to the first Democratic presidential...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
I’ve experience one shooting in my life. I know that no one truly knows what they would do when suddenly faced with their mortality. Ben Carson had a gun pointed at him once. He should know better. On October 1, Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer shot and killed nine...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Hillary Clinton gave a big boost to opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership when, in an interview on the PBS NewsHour Wednesday, she voiced her opposition to the just-completed "trade" treaty. Clinton joins fellow Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Unable to govern and unwilling to be governed, the deepest dysfunctions of the House Republican conference are rising to the surface, as the party struggles to choose a new speaker. Rep. John Boehner’s resignation as House speaker was the first sign of just how bad...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the August goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $48.3 billion. This is a big 15.6% increase from July's enormous, humongous $41.8 (revised) billion trade deficit. Exports dropped 2 percent and imports...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Jobs and Growth, This Is The GOP
Republicans and the rich guys who imposed on American workers 35 years of stagnant wages now offer a prescription for easing this pain! Their solution for robber-baron-level income inequality is not the obvious: Give workers raises. They don’t want to increase the...
