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SHARE Tuesday, June 9, 2020 Robert Kennedy and Racial Reconciliation
Robert Kennedy appealed to Americans across the divides of class and geography. He offered the possibility of building a multi-racial coalition that included poor and working-class African Americans and whites.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 6, 2020 This Is Not a Normal Election
Trump is the worst president in history. He's incompetent, a pathological liar, a toxic white supremacist, a danger to the health and safety of the American people and the entire world, and a genius at propaganda, manipulating public opinion, and the use of scapegoating to whip up hatred and divert attention from his own failures.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 30, 2020 There's No "Trade-Off" Between Saving Lives and Saving the Economy
Congress has planned to spend $2.2 trillion to address the unprecedented double-whammy of a public health crisis and an economic crisis. But President Trump and some of his allies are still arguing that we can't solve both problems at the same time.
SHARE Friday, April 13, 2018 Paul Ryan: Charlatan, Hypocrite, and Right-Wing Extremist Scurries for the Exit
Reluctantly tethered to President Trump, Paul Ryan never figured out how to join forces with the erratic president to craft a legislative agenda. His only signature accomplishment as Speaker was passage of the regressive tax bill. On other matters, such as repealing Obamacare or devising a conservative anti-poverty plan, Ryan's leadership was a total failure.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 4, 2017 This Labor Day, Remember That Martin Luther King's Last Campaign Was for Workers' Rights
A Pew Research Center survey last year found that 52% of American voters favored raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. An even larger number of Americans embrace increasing it to $12 an hour. Backed by nearly half of the Senate's Democrats, Senators Bernie Sanders and Patty Murray have introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2017 which would gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 13, 2017 Petition to Censure Trump Gains Momentum
In less than two weeks, a petition calling for Congress to censure President Donald Trump for misconduct and misdeeds has attracted more than 14,500 signatures.