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Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar.
Earlier this year, when members of Congress repeatedly confronted U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos about a study finding the federal government’s charter school grant program had wasted an ...
A new study by the Pew Research Center spurred a rash of headlines last week about “the dying middle class." But the word “dying” might be more appropriate if we were watching the regrettable but ...
Our 2010 Reagan Revolution Home To Roost series, especially the post Reagan Revolution Home To Roost — In Charts described the beginning of the great decoupling of the American economy from the middle ...
Businesses are run for a profit that goes into the pockets of the business' "investors." To be an investor requires that you have money. This is a rigged system that by definition channels the returns ...
Establishment" economists attacked Bernie Sanders by attacking an analysis by economist Gerald Friedman. Friedman said Sanders' plan would produce significant growth in an economy that continues to ...
Social progress is never a straightforward, linear process. Sometimes society struggles to recognize moral questions that in retrospect should have seemed obvious. Then, in a historical moment, ...
Things are changing. A major crack has appeared in the edifice of globalization, and the neoliberal order that has dominated the world's economy since the end of World War II is now in danger. That's ...
As a community organizer, I often imagine what it would have been like to march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and win the Voting Rights Act. I always find inspiration in Dr. King’s words, ...
The enormous, humongous trade deficit is doing incredible damage to our economy. Our country's elites used to care about that. In 2003 Warren Buffett wrote a highly-influerntial article, America's ...
The 2020 presidential election, for many of us, will be the fight of our lifetime. We need a president who will take bold action on the issues shaping the lives of people in the multiracial working ...
“I think we’re all going to be different after this,” Mary Parr-Sanchez told me in a phone call, “but I don’t know how.” Parr-Sanchez is the current president of NEA-New Mexico, the National Education ...