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Open Letter to Louise Linton About Angels and Humanity

Dear Ms. Linton, This has undoubtedly been a difficult couple of days for you, both as a person and as the wife of the United States Treasury Secretary. Nobody enjoys the sudden onrush of hostile attention that comes when something they’ve said goes viral, and not in...

Progressive Breakfast

Closing Our Borders, Permanently? Trump crafting plan to slash legal immigration. Politico: "Donald Trump and his aides are quietly working with two conservative senators to dramatically scale back legal immigration — a move that would mark a fulfillment of one of the...

Keep the Internet Open and Fair for Small Businesses

Small businesses can’t compete without an open Internet. Today, hundreds of activists, big companies and small businesses are coming together for a Net Neutrality Day of Action. In 2010, the Obama Administration issued the Open Internet Order, which prohibited...

Kitchen Logic: Don't Let Trump's GOP Privatize America

If you needed a new stove or refrigerator, you wouldn’t give the keys to your kitchen to Olive Garden, then pay them to let you eat. You’d be opening your wallet for the rest of your life. Unfortunately, that’s the kind of logic Donald Trump and his party are using to...

The Great Betrayal: Donald Trump’s Budget

Donald Trump’s FY 2018 budget is, the White House admits, a “message document” -  at best, a marker to begin negotiations. So what is the message this White House is sending? First, it raises a long, fat middle finger pointed at the working class voters who helped to...

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