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It's Not That Trump Is Unstoppable. It's That Republicans Are Incapable.
Bill Scher: The Republican Party's efforts to stop Donald Trump are limp, halting and feckless. The party is so woebegone that two people can't successfully coordinate the most basic of strategies: You go here and I'll go there.
Sanders Didn't Start The Fire, So Don't Ask Him To Put It Out
Bernie Sanders is not the match that lit a progressive populist flame. The match was the unrest with Democratic Party politics that revealed itself long before he "felt the Bern" himself.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Protect Civilian Control of the Military In our latest Burning Issues video, Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George W. Bush administration, explains that the fundamental principle of...
Clinton's Defense of Big Money Won't Cut It
Clinton wants Sanders to stop criticizing her fundraising. Her defenses of her money chase contradict the basic case reformers and most Democrats make against Citizens United and big money in politics. Voters should not be misled by the
Burning Issues: Protect Civilian Control of the Military
Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson explains that the fundamental principle of a civilian-run military answerable to a democratically elected president and Congress is under threat, in this Burning Issues video segment.
Wingnut Week In Review: Who’s In Your Wallet?
For eight years, wingnuts had to deal with the reality of a black man in the White House. Now, it looks like there will be a black woman in their wallets. They’re not taking it well.
As Verizon Strike Continues, What Are Candidates Saying?
40,000 workers at Verizon and Verizon Wireless are still on strike, fighting for their future and the future of middle class wages in our economy. Here's who is standing with them.
An Economy Like It's 1999
Remembering the artist Prince and one of his greatest hits, "1999," got us thinking: 1999 was actually a pretty good year for the U.S. economy. Is it too much to ask that we emulate what we got right back then?
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Avoiding The Failures of Militarism The next president should heed the wisdom of an electorate that is “fed up” with the follies of military adventurism because of the fiascos in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, says Emira Woods, a foreign policy fellow at...
Burning Issues: Avoiding The Failures of Militarism
Emira Woods, foreign policy fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, explains the need for the next president to take heed of America's weariness with war and the follies of military adventurism.
