Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018
U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.
How Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh could return US policy to the era of...
“Judge Kavanaugh isn't anti-environmental, but he tends to be anti-agency."
While Trump calls climate change a hoax, Hurricane Michael damaged US fighter jets worth...
At least 17 planes, costing $339 million each, were likely left behind and possibly destroyed.
Rev. William Barber: Tear gassing Central American migrants is inhumane, unconstitutional, immoral
"This is white nationalism being played out in public policy. This is racism being played out in public policy. This is also inhumane."
The biggest deficit you’ve never heard of
It’s the deficit in public investment.
Watch your wallets
The underlying problem isn’t that Americans have been living beyond their means. It’s that their means haven’t been keeping up with the growing economy. Most gains have gone to the top.
An Open Letter to the People of West Papua
“We have recently been discussing your ongoing courageous struggle to liberate yourselves from more than 100 years of occupation, first by the Netherlands, briefly and brutally by Japan during World War II, and now by Indonesia.”
America, go big again
From the start of our United States, Americans have backed leaders who dared to do big public projects.
America’s New Year’s resolution: Remove Trump
Republican members of Congress must join with Democrats to get this task done as quickly as possible.
‘A $753,000,000,000 Defense Budget Is a Failure’: Biden Pentagon Request Rebuked
Progressive anti-war campaigners and lawmakers blasted President Joe Biden's call Friday for a $753 billion military budget for fiscal year 2022, a...