Progressive Voices Speaking Out
Imagine if Elon Musk, Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year,” put his mind to minimizing the frequency of and damage from forest fires. Suppose that he also focused on helping the United States and the world deal with mitigating other damage that is already being done to Planet Earth as a result of climate change.
In May 2018, more than eleven hundred American economics teachers and economists, among them eleven Nobel Prize winners, banded together to sign an open
Something monumental, and not in a good way, is going on in Venezuela. You might need to get out a map of South America
What’s better: a military-based economy or a peace-based economy? Jason Sibert of the Peace Economy Project, says that cutting military spending and funding human
We can see it now, the smiling faces of more than forty Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives who are working on
Consider two anecdotes: The First: Recently I tried to get into the mind of a Trump supporter that had posted a status about the
Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News, could not appear to be more affable and concerned about delivering “straight news.” After Brian Williams bloviated
Trump’s wall could affect your weekly trip to the supermarket. Instead of getting Mexico to pay for his pet project, as he loudly promised
It’s been perhaps a generation and a half since America experienced the pain of double-digit inflation. We don’t talk much about inflation these days,
Less than a week before Americans go to the polls, four hundred of the country’s most prominent economists, including eight Nobel Laureates, have signed