by Alex Lawson | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Recently, a newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign laid out Joe Bidenâs long record of supporting cuts to Social Security. The website PolitiFact weighed in on one part of that record, a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which...
by Tobita Chow | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Climate, Economy, Election, Environment, Featured, Future of Work, Trade
Trump crows the âPhase Oneâ trade agreement with China is a "promise kept" to his supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his trade war. This truce may not last long or deliver anything close to the outcomes he...
by Tom Conway | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Future of Work, Politics
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Patients have punched Marketa Anderson. Theyâve kicked and head-butted her. Theyâve slammed her into walls. One threw a shoe, hitting her. Then he threw a chair at herâand missed. Health care workers like Anderson, president...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Politics
âPurity testâ? âPragmatic progressiveâ? âFree stuffâ? What are these politicians talking about? If youâre confused, youâre not alone. Certain words and phrases are routinely used by âcentristâ political candidates. By design, these terms are imprecise, emotionally...
by Thom Hartmann | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Election, Featured
FDR signs the Banking Act of 1935. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Many grassroots Democrats separated from their party in the 1990s, and the 2020 election may be the last chance to save the marriage. While the GOP has been trying to establish a semi-permanent ruling...
by Tim Wilkins | Dec 17, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Trumpâs America feels more and more like the 1850s, when our countryâs violent anti-immigrant movement was born. Anti-Catholic mobs, alarmed by a rapid influx of poor immigrants from Germany, Ireland and Italy, burned churches and killed Catholics in Philadelphia and...
