Tag: GOP
Scoring Trump’s tax cuts so far: $280k for rich lawmakers, pennies...
Very few businesses have raised wages thanks to corporate tax cuts, but executives and lawmakers are buying new yachts.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 16, 2018
Intellectually bankrupt GOP, California cities pledge to oppose offshore drilling, White House revokes security clearance of ex-CIA director, and more.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Worker's wages fall, Federal judge orders government to seek consent before medicating migrant children, Bernie Sanders thanks the Koch brothers, and more.
West Virginia teachers help vote out longtime foe of state’s unions
The teachers handed Republican state Sen. Robert Karnes his defeat as many participated in the GOP primary.
New polls show anti-Trump isn’t enough to beat GOP
The latest numbers tell us a lot about the limits of denouncing Donald Trump without offering much more than a return to the old status quo.
If Trump isn’t the best democratic plant . . . then...
The anti-president wreaks GOP havoc.
We’re told the Dow Jones average…
But wait – nearly all stock is owned by the richest 10 percent of Americans, so the Dow Jones Average says nothing about the economic condition of the 90 percent majority of Americans.
Major victory for Pennsylvania: Supreme Court rules state’s gerrymandered congressional map...
It is time for voters to choose politicians rather than politician choosing voters.
The GOP a year after Trump
For the new GOP, states’ rights be damned because it’s all about consolidating power in Washington, under Trump.
When will Democrats start #resisting GOP voter suppression?
If party leaders don’t understand what they need to do to win elections, maybe it’s time to choose some new party leaders.
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.