John Nichols, The Nation, Oct. 13, 2015. The first Democratic debate of the 2016 campaign is coming too late—more than two months after the Republicans began debating. Yet it…
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Nancy Folbre, New York Times. Oct 6, 2015. In 1890 the journalist Jacob Riis published “How the Other Half Lives,” a powerful indictment of the horrific tenements of New York…
By Donald Cohen, In the Public Interest, October 2015 You wouldn’t hand your laptop to a hacker, right? Well, the Senate could make a move just as foolish. They’ll…
By Dave Johnson, fellow at Campaign for America’s Future. Originally appeared on CAF’s blog. With corporate-conservative calls for full or partial privatization of the United States Postal Service (USPS) escalating,…
By Dave Johnson, Fellow at Campaign for America’s Future Should we run our country for the benefit of We the People, or so that a few people can profit…
By Lisa Rein. Originally published in The Washington Post, August 26, 2015. Amid a significant downsizing of the money-strapped U.S. Postal Service, the number of letters arriving late has…
On August 13, a delegation representing six signatories to A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service met with the Postmaster General, Megan Brennan at Postal Headquarters in Washington,…
By Fredric Rolando. Originally appeared in The Washington Examiner. Though the U.S. Postal Service is older than the country itself, delivers to 153 million homes and businesses six and increasingly…
Last week, 54 signatories of A Grand Alliance, concerned about protecting prompt, reliable mail service, mailed letters to members of the House, asking them to co-sponsor two bipartisan resolutions to…
This piece by Dave Johnson was originally published on Campaign for America’s Future’s blog. A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service is calling for support of two House resolutions…