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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Treasurer Kurt Summers say they’ve heard the cries of neighborhoods hungry for investment, and they’re responding by “launching the Chicago Community Catalyst Fund.” This fund aims “to provide targeted investments in businesses and community projects in the City’s neighborhoods most in need.”

This piece first appeared at RobertReich.org

As a first step, I believe it necessary for the members and leadership of the Democratic National Committee to step down and be replaced by people who are determined to create a party that represents America – including all those who feel powerless and disenfranchised, and who have been left out of our politics and left behind in our economy. 

The Democratic Party as it is now constituted has become a giant fundraising machine, too often... Читать дальше...

I’ve seen a lot since the fall of 1972, when as a 16-year-old I first got involved in politics driving the back roads of Missouri stuffing mailboxes for George McGovern—but today I am as much in shock as everyone at the turn our country took on Tuesday.

This article was first posted on the author's blog.

Had it not been for the Electoral College, at this moment we would be discussing the plans for the incoming Hillary Clinton administration. That’s right. She actually won the popular vote. Thus, once again, that institution created by the founding slave owners has risen from the grave and prevented our exit from the cemetery.

I begin there to put the election into context and to suggest that commentary needs to be quite nuanced. Читать дальше...