The first national test of the Democrats’ surge of energy, (both for voters and candidates) their ability to influence the November election, and their willingness to think ahead and be smart, came to an inconclusive, but typical conclusion in Texas last Tuesday. The biggest race of the night for the Democratic party will be decided…
There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound Everybody look what’s going down There’s battle lines being drawn Nobody’s…
In coal country, twenty and thirty year old white laborers won’t even accept free retraining because they believe Trump’s promise that coal and steel jobs are coming back, much the same way covered wagon builders believed the locomotive wouldn’t permanently replace their jobs.
Steel At a sprawling steel mill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the workers have one number in mind; and it’s not how many tons of steel produced every day, or how many hours they work. It’s where each of them falls on the plant’s seniority list. ArcelorMittal, which owns the mill, announced in the fall…
On December 2, the Senate passed a tax bill that is both callous and rash. But beyond that assessment it’s also stupid, short-sighted and will have disastrous consequences for 90% of the population. The bill is stupid because it cuts taxes for US corporations — which are enjoying record profits already without a corresponding rise…
It’s an insurmountable task to hope that anything could convince Trump supporters that his snake oil really isn’t the cure for whatever ails them. It’s going to simply take a massive turnout of believers in facts, in every election, to wrestle the basic fairness back into our democracy; tenacity has to become a liberal bias as well as truth.
