Yes, He Can – 20 Progressive Executive Actions

The Nation magazine outlines 20 ways that Obama can use his presidential power to push a progressive agenda.

Environment

• Assemble a Commission on Climate Change
• Direct the EPA to Regulate All Greenhouse Gases
• Reject the Keystone Pipeline and ‘All of the Above’

Foreign Policy And National Security

• Take Nuclear Weapons Off ‘Hair-Trigger’ Status
• Take Cuba Off the ‘State Sponsors of Terror’ List
• Audit the Pentagon

Economy

• Create a National Development Bank

Labor

• Implement ‘High Road’ Contracting
• Grant Wage and Overtime Protections to Homecare Workers

Criminal Justice

• Challenge the School-to-Prison Pipeline
• Pardon Prisoners and Commute Unjust Sentences
• Tell the Justice Department to Focus on High-Level Offenses

Immigration

• Stop Deporting Undocumented Parents

Reproductive Rights

• Tell HHS to Approve Over-the-Counter Plan B for All Women
• Reinterpret the Helms Amendment

Civil Liberties

• Rewrite FBI Guidelines for Spying on Americans
• Release the Legal Memos on Targeted Killings

Voting Rights

• Modernize Voting

Money in Politics

• Appoint New Federal Election Commissioners
• Make Government Contractors Reveal Political Donations

Read the full article here. As the Nation Editors write – From Cuba to climate change to criminal justice, progressives must push the president to act—and forge a better future.