by Richard Eskow | May 29, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
A Google search for the phrase "soul of the Democratic Party" yields thousands of hits, because the struggle for that soul has been a perennial subject of debate. I've probably used the phrase myself. But after a week spent tracking the independent left's political...
by Bill Scher | May 28, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Conservative Peter Wehner argues in the New York Times that President Obama has pulled the Democratic Party too far the left, ruining the party's electoral strength at every level except the presidency. "The Democratic Party is now a pre-Bill Clinton party" says...
by Hedrick Smith | May 27, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The latest move by Los Angeles to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 has national significance far beyond the powerful impact it will have on the incomes and lives of an estimated 400,000 workers in L.A. Not only does it put pressure on the rest of...
by Richard Eskow | May 27, 2015 | Blog, Populism2015, Progressive Vision
We live in a political era dominated by corporate cash, billionaire "beauty pageants," and a right-wing noise machine whose rhetorical phasers are permanently set to "stun." It's easy to lose track of ourselves when we're distracted from moment to moment by Fox News...
by Terrance Heath | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
In the largest protest of its kind, thousands of McDonald’s employees stormed the company’s headquarters today to demand that it stop spending millions manipulating stock prices, and start paying workers a living wage. McDonald’s cashiers and cooks came to the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 20, 2015 | Progressive Vision
Get ready to add the name Jim Kenney to a growing list of progressive populist mayors who seek to put their cities in the vanguard of economic change for working people. Kenney won the mayoral nomination Tuesday night in Philadelphia's Democratic primary. He won in...
