Richard Eskow
Richard (RJ) Eskow is a senior fellow at Campaign for America's Future.
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Views Thursday, September 14, 2017 Medicare For All Can Reshape the ‘Art of the Possible’ Bernie Sanders unveiled his Medicare for All bill this week, and 16 Democratic senators signed on as cosponsors. The last time he introduced a bill like it, not one senator was willing to join him. They considered the idea impossible, utopian. Times have changed. The senators who shared a podium... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 12, 2017 What Matters Is What Happens Next, Not ‘What Happened’ Remember when Bill Clinton used this Fleetwood Mac nugget as a theme in his 1992 campaign? Today, as Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir goes on sale, the Democratic Party Clinton and his fellow “centrists” remade in their image seems unable to stop thinking about yesterday. Can the Democratic Party... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 07, 2017 Disaster Recovery Should Heal, Not Divide, Our Communities Houston has barely begun to recover from Hurricane Harvey, as Irma devastates the Caribbean and heads towards Puerto Rico and Florida. Its hard to imagine all the grief, effort, and cost it will take to rebuild from one of these thousand-year storms, much less two. But we better get used to it... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 24, 2017 Open Letter to Louise Linton About Angels and Humanity Dear Ms. Linton, This has undoubtedly been a difficult couple of days for you, both as a person and as the wife of the United States Treasury Secretary. Nobody enjoys the sudden onrush of hostile attention that comes when something they’ve said goes viral , and not in a good way. Your public record... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 14, 2017 Trump Won’t Say It, But We Will: White Terror in Charlottesville Her name was Heather Heyer . She was marching for justice in Charlottesville when she was killed by a white racist. Say her name. His name was Timothy Caughman . He was walking down the street in New York City when he was killed by a white racist. Say his name. Their names were Ricky John Best and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 02, 2017 Land Taken From Freed Slave’s Descendants for Amazon Data Center? This is a story about property: real and imagined, legitimate and illegitimate. It’s a story about who gets to decide who can own what, and whom. It’s a story of reality, both physical and virtual. It’s a story that begins with humans in chains, moves through Disney’s desire to make a theme park... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 01, 2017 Kochs and Trump Team Up to Cut Billionaires’ Taxes This headline appeared on Monday, July 31, 2017, at precisely 4:00 am: “ Koch Brothers Move to Back White House’s Tax-Cut Plan .” This one appeared less than twelve hours later: “ White House sees tax reform zipping through Congress in October, November .” That’s what you get when you combine the... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 28, 2017 The Mooch, the Donald, and the Goldmanization of Government Donald Trump’s White House seems more like a Quentin Tarantino movie every day. Amid allegations of broken laws and self-dealing at the highest levels, the president has now hired a Communications Director called “The Mooch.” The name brings to mind the famous “ Mr. Pink ” scene from Reservoir Dogs... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 25, 2017 If Hell Had a Budget: The GOP Breaks the Ten Commandments A heat wave gripped Washington D.C. last week, its bright sun delineating each building’s sharp corners with Edward Hopper-like clarity. Commuters waited listlessly for trains and buses, fixed in their moments of misery like flies in amber. If the city seemed like Hell, the resemblance was only... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Medicare For All Is Coming, No Matter What They Say The idea of Medicare for All, or single-payer health care, has grown in popularity so quickly that it was recently an answer on the quiz show Jeopardy: More than half of all Americans, 53 percent, now want a single-payer plan, up from 40 percent in 1998-2000. But at the same time, Medicare for All... Read more |