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A McCarthy Moment for Donald Trump — And The GOP
Donald Trump’s response to a well deserved rebuke form the parents of a Muslim-American war hero should lead Republicans to ask whether their candidate has, at long last, no sense of decency.
The Real Reckoning
The major issue the public is reacting to isn’t terrorism or racism. It’s the rigging of our economy – the increasingly tight nexus between wealth and political power.
Progressive Breakfast
Campaigns Target Rust Belt Whites Clinton campaign hopes to narrow margins with white working-class. NYT: "....across regions where blue-collar jobs in manufacturing and other sectors have evaporated, Mrs. Clinton is attempting a delicate balancing act: insisting she...
Can Clinton Convince Skeptical Voters She’ll Fix the Economy?
Hillary Clinton's agenda should resonate with voters. But Americans are for good reason in a skeptical mood. Democrats will need to convince voters they really mean it – especially if the bad news keeps coming.
Wingnut Week In Review: From Russia, With Love?
While Hillary Clinton was shattering that glass ceiling, Donald Trump pulled off a first of his own: the first presidential candidate to invite a cyber attack against the United States.
Latest Senate Food Workers Victory Highlights Perils of Privatization
Senate cafeteria workers this week won more than $1 million in wages they were cheated out of by a contractor. Their fight shows why we have to oppose privatizing public services and support a "model employer" executive order.
One Democratic Convention Speech Nailed The Progressive Vision
Rev. William Barber's speech at the closing night of the Democratic National Convention called on delegates to be "moral defibrillators" for a nation with a "heart problem." And he electrified the convention.
Can Hillary Get Away With Hugging Obama?
Clinton is not selling herself as an agent of abrupt change. She is positioning herself as a conduit of steady change, in contrast to, Donald Trump, who might bring change like a tornado, leveling all in its wake.
Progressive Breakfast
Hillary Hugs Bernie, Eyes Republicans Clinton embraces Sanders in acceptance speech. The New Yorker's John Cassidy: "...Clinton reached out to Sanders’s supporters, pointing to the Party platform ... 'We wrote it together,' Clinton said. 'Now let’s go out and make it...
Hillary Clinton and the Choice
Hillary Clinton stepped into history last night, accepting the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. She reminded Democrats that they were the "party of working people" and set up the choice that voters will face this fall.
