11 reasons why America does worse under the GOP
Consider the following fact: The last time a Republican president created an average of 1 million jobs a year over the course of his presidency was nearly three decades ago, under Ronald Reagan. When...
View ArticleJessica A. Johnson commentary: Current generation is continuing King's work
On September 10, 1961, the New York Times Magazine published an essay by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. titled “The Time for Freedom Has Come.” King intended young people in the civil rights movement to...
View ArticleBernie Sanders, Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Reality of Reparations
Sanders’ recent comment is another chapter in a long debate among liberals and progressives about the relationship between race and class. The well-being and political interests of African-Americans...
View ArticleHere’s What Bernie Sanders Supporters Wish Everyone Else Understood
Every presidential election cycle has at least one candidate who colors way outside of the party lines. Because there are always voters in America who are tired of the status quo, these fringe...
View ArticleThe Brilliance of Obama's State of the Union Speech
Obama sure can deliver one helluva speech. And in his final State of the Union address, President Obama was nothing less than sensational. Even the Republican response attack acknowledged Obama's...
View ArticleA big-shot venture capitalist says we need inequality. What do economists say?
"Making the world a better place." SAN FRANCISCO – There is an apartment for rent in a renovated former warehouse here, across the street from the Caltrain commuter rail station. It has two bedrooms...
View ArticleWhere Economic Distress Meets Political Dysfunction
Summer is over. The harvest is in And we are not saved. -- Jeremiah 8:20 The economy generated almost 300,000 jobs last year and cut the nominal unemployment rate to five percent. But family incomes...
View ArticleThe Trump effect
It’s an unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon in December, and the circus is in town. That is, Donald Trump is here to perform in a “town hall” before the 4,200 people who have filled the Convocation...
View ArticleTop Republicans say Donald Trump’s real problem is that he’s too moderate
Donald Trump speaks in Ft. Dodge, Iowa on November 12. REUTERS/Scott Morgan It's like something out of a Marvel movie. Rich Lowry, the editor of the conservative National Review, assembles a squadron...
View ArticleGuarantee your income before robots take your job: Joe Mathews
Do you want your ham and eggs, California? It is one of the most enduring ideas in our state: Government should provide everyone with a minimum amount of money on a regular basis. It goes back to the...
View ArticleRELEASE: New Economic Research from CAP Strongly Suggests the Decline in...
(Source: Center for American Progress) January 13, 2016 Contact: Allison Preiss Phone: 202.478.6331 Email:apreiss@americanprogress.org Washington, D.C. - New economic research from the Center for...
View ArticleColumnist E.J. Dionne on the Future of the Increasingly Radicalized...
This Q&A first appeared in The National Book Review. E.J. Dionne, whose political column appears in The Washington Post and nearly 100 other newspapers, has a new book out, Why the Right Went...
View ArticleThere’s good reason to address income inequality
When the history of this year’s presidential campaign is written, one of its more remarkable features will be that candidates of both parties feel it necessary to talk about income inequality. Surely...
View ArticlePaul Krugman on the 'Happy Dreams' of Bernie Sanders
Few public intellectuals have a better grasp of the inherent injustices of our current economic order than the Noble Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. But when it comes to weighing the political...
View ArticleHow Trump's deportation plan failed 62 years ago
(CNN)Donald Trump has vaulted to the top of the Republican presidential pack with bold assertions -- and few policy details. The rare exception: his immigration plan. As president, Trump says he would...
View ArticleCollective Action has the Power to Defeat Racist Rhetoric in 2016 (Iowa...
(Source: Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO) Ian Haney-Lopez releases new report outlining strategies for collective action against racist rhetoric in politics (Washington, DC, January 14, 2015) -...
View ArticleWhy Martin Luther King Didn't Run for President
Early in 1967, America was mired in an escalating war in Vietnam, presided over by President Lyndon B. Johnson. A collection of liberal leaders including anti-war Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin,...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Was a Democratic Socialist
As we celebrate his birthday, it is easy to forget that Rev. Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist. In 1964, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, he observed that the United States could...
View ArticleKim Beazley leaves Washington
Kim Beazley arrived in Washington, DC, in the middle of the snowiest winter in the capital since 1880, in February, 2010, a year after Barack Obama was sworn into office. Seeing a visitor to the front...
View ArticleWhy Organized Labor is More Important Than Ever In An Era of Vast Economic...
Where unions remain, wages and benefits are better. Imagine America without unions. This shouldn’t be hard. In much of America unions have already disappeared. In the rest of America they’re battling...
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