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Richard Eskow

Richard (RJ) Eskow is a senior fellow at Campaign for America's Future.

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	Views Friday, June 23, 2017 GOP 'Health' Bill: Death, Disaster, and Gilded Age Greed The Republican Senate’s draft health bill differs from the House version, but its basic purpose is the same: give millionaires and billionaires a massive new tax cut by slashing health benefits for millions of Americans, and take care away altogether from millions more. "The Republicans want to... Read more
	Views Friday, June 16, 2017 Resistance in a Time of Gunfire The smell of gun smoke had net yet lifted from an Alexandria baseball field when the calls for unity began. “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan. “You’re going to hear me say something you’ve never heard me say before,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi... Read more
	Views Wednesday, June 14, 2017 Cuomo Wants to Privatize Penn Station; That’s a Bad Republican Idea New Yorkers face a “ summer of hell ” as Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie seek to hand over the city’s historic Penn Station to private investors. This “hell” is the result of our leaders’ “bipartisan” reluctance to invest in needed government infrastructure. Donald Trump is working with... Read more
	Views Tuesday, June 13, 2017 The Koch Brothers & Trump: The Men Who Sold the World When he withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump gave a speech so filled with falsehoods that it triggered detailed rebuttals by publications ranging from Politifact to Scientific American . The Washington Post‘s “ Fact Checker ” column, which hands out “Pinocchios” for false or... Read more
	Views Friday, June 09, 2017 Kitchen Logic: Don't Let Trump's GOP Privatize America If you needed a new stove or refrigerator, you wouldn’t give the keys to your kitchen to Olive Garden, then pay them to let you eat. You’d be opening your wallet for the rest of your life. Unfortunately, that’s the kind of logic Donald Trump and his party are using to give away our shared wealth... Read more
	Views Wednesday, May 31, 2017 The Republican Party’s Sickness of the Soul There’s a sickness on the land. You know the facts: Millions of Americans lives in poverty. The number of Americans in the workforce remains low. Wages are stagnating and inequality is growing. “Deaths of despair” from alcoholism, opioid overdose, and suicide are on the rise. But it’s not just the... Read more
	Views Tuesday, May 23, 2017 They’re Talking a Better Game, But Will the Democrats Fight? In public, leading Democrats blame outside forces like Russia and former FBI Director James Comey for their losses in 2016. But privately, many acknowledge the party needs a new direction. The Democrats’ massive losses at state and congressional levels cannot be blamed on WikiLeaks, Comey or even... Read more
	Views Monday, May 15, 2017 The Bradley Foundation's Secret War on Gay Marriage and Liberal Sex A trove of documents exposed by the Center for Media and Democracy shows that the right-wing Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation wants to build a right-wing “ infrastructure ” across the country to promote its extreme agenda. Unfortunately, the Foundation’s desire to police what happens in American... Read more
	Views Wednesday, May 03, 2017 Who’s Behind the Billionaire PAC Targeting Elizabeth Warren? America Rising, a billionaire-backed conservative group, is targeting Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as she tours the country in support of her new book, according to a memo obtained by Politico . “We view (the) book launch as the soft launch of her presidential campaign,” said executive... Read more
	Views Friday, April 28, 2017 The First 100 Days of Resistance Donald Trump’s 100th day as president is upon us, and the early reviews aren’t good. Although he now calls it a “ridiculous standard,” Trump once touted his 100-day plan on the campaign trail. This flip-flop can be explained by his unimpressive record of accomplishment to date. Trump has reversed... Read more

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