What FDR’s polio crusade teaches us about presidential leadership amid crisis
In this sense, FDR was both a statistical anomaly and cautionary lesson.
What the fact?! Reacting to the RNC
Robert Reich reacts to the most outrageous whoppers and provided some fact-based rebuttals.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, July 9, 2018
Trump freezes Obamacare payment program, Starbucks says goodbye to plastic straws, Colorado schools are arming teachers with no state oversight, and more.
Trump’s plans to weaponize the military against protesters and immigrants face fewer legal constraints
Amid threats to deploy federal troops for mass deportations and protest suppression, advocates warn that recent legal shifts may grant unprecedented latitude to a second Trump administration.
Stop Trump’s privatization agenda
The Trump administration’s privatization strategy begins with propaganda about providing “choice” and “vouchers.”
To prevent voter intimidation, Michigan has banned open carry guns at polling places
“The presence of firearms at the polling place, clerk’s office(s), or absent voter counting board may cause disruption, fear or intimidation for voters, election workers and others present.”
Memo to the press (or how to cover Trump without Trump covering you)
Stop treating Trump’s tweets as news. They’re not news; they’re his gut feelings at the moment.
Candidates for appointment to government posts or judgeships don’t have a ‘presumption of innocence’
A confirmation hearing is a job interview, not a trial.
How to fight Trump without caving to corporatists
The DNC should provide leadership at times like these. But there’s still no leadership, several months into a second Trump regime that’s much worse than the first.
Breaking with Wall Street: LA puts it to the voters
The numbers are there to support the case for a city-owned bank, but a critical ingredient in effecting revolutionary change is finding the political will.