Professor, economist, author, and political commentator Robert Reich is best known for being President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997. Before that he held positions in the administrations of Gerald Ford and ...
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has issued his “Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education.” His ten-point plan
addresses the serious crisis in our education system by reducing racial and economic segregation in our public school system, ...
Donald Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2020 budget (Oct. 1, 2019–Sept. 30, 2020), “A Budget for a Better America: Promises Kept. Taxpayers First,” largely mirrors his two previous budgets for fiscal years 2018 and 2019. In spite of Democratic ...
It is a common occurrence at sporting events. Someone is singing the U.S. national anthem — “The Star-Spangled Banner” — and when he gets to the last line of the first verse (although the song has four verses, the ...
Donald Trump’s economic ignorance knows no bounds. And especially when it comes to the subject of trade.
Trade is always a win-win proposition. In every exchange, each party gives up something valued less for something valued ...
Congress recently held its first hearing on “Medicare for All” legislation that would eliminate most private insurance, phase out Medicare and Medicaid, and institute universal socialized medicine.
The House Rules Committee heard six hours of testimony ...
The Democratic senator from New Jersey and presidential candidate Cory Booker wants to cut the taxes of 150 million Americans. But is what he’s proposing a tax cut or a welfare increase?
After declaring his intention to run for president, ...
In the 1968 presidential election that pitted Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey against Republican Richard M. Nixon, American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace famously quipped that there was not a dime’s worth of difference between the two ...
Late last month, Donald Trump announced his intention to cut off U.S. foreign aid to three countries in Central America’s Northern Triangle: Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. He accused the governments of those countries of not only failing to ...
Even though the Republicans had majorities in the House and Senate during the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency, they failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, or to “repeal and replace” it ...
