By Robert Reich
The good news this Labor Day: Jobs are returning. The bad news this Labor Day: Most of them pay lousy wages and low if non-existent benefits.
The trend toward lousy wages began before the Great Recession. According … Read more »
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON — ON the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Kerry Bentivolio, a Michigan congressman, has a dream, too: to impeach the nation’s first black president.
“If I could write that … Read more »
By Kiley Kroh, ThinkProgress
While the national debate remains largely focused on President Obama’s impending decision regarding the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, communities across the U.S. and Canada are grappling with the oil and gas industry’s rapidly expanding pipeline network-cutting … Read more »
By Justin McCurry, Guardian UK
Japan’s nuclear agency dramatically raises status after saying a day earlier that radioactive water leak was only an ‘anomaly’
apan is to issue its gravest warning about the state of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear … Read more »
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the American Bar Association and its members to protect and advance the right to vote during her appearance at the group’s Annual Meeting to accept the ABA Medal, the association’s highest honor. … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN
We all know how democracy is supposed to work. Politicians are supposed to campaign on the issues, and an informed public is supposed to cast its votes based on those issues, with some allowance for the politicians’ … Read more »
By Josh Israel, ThinkProgress
Just hours after Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed a broad bill to massively restrict voting rights in North Carolina, localities moved to make it harder for students to vote. The moves come on the heels of … Read more »
By Scott Slesinger, EcoWatch
What’s worse than a do-nothing Congress? It’s a do-something-bad Congress. That’s what we see today from the House GOP majority.
While much media attention has focused this year on congressional gridlock – how Congress hasn’t been … Read more »
By Evan Mascagni, Salon
After eating a school lunch that was made with cooking oil tainted with the toxic pesticide monocrotophos, 23 Indian children were recently killed. While themedia has highlighted the widespread use of highly hazardous chemicals in India … Read more »
By Maggie Caldwell, Mother Jones
By now, you’ve likely heard about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the controversy over whether they’re the answer to world hunger or the devil incarnate. But for right now, let’s leave aside that debate and … Read more »
