by Joshua Holland | Dec 10, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
On Tuesday, amid much controversy and after a year of political combat between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA, a long-anticipated summary of the committee’s report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program was released. Here’s what you need to...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Fox News hosts Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly assured us that the “Ferguson story” would be over in a week. [fve]http://youtu.be/_Fx6AUZDZ7E[/fve] That was before a grand jury declined to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo for killing Eric Garner with an illegal...
by Robert Reich | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
In Washington’s coming budget battles, sacred cows like the tax deductions for home mortgage interest and charitable donations are likely to be on the table along with potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare. But no one on Capitol Hill believes Wall Street’s...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders released an Economic Agenda for America last week, detailing 12 reforms to help make this economy work for working people once more. “The question of our time,” he said in a fiery speech, “is whether or not we are prepared to take on the...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 4, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
In his examination of former Virginia Senator Jim Webb's potential presidential candidacy, New York Times commentator Thomas Edsall explored Webb's potential appeal to “voters convinced that Wall Street owns both parties, voters tired of politicians submitting to...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 3, 2014 | Progressive Vision
As a grand jury in New York decides not to indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner with an illegal choke-hold, the president’s too-modest proposals fall short of the change America needs. The problems highlighted by Ferguson require more than body cameras and...
