by Bernie Horn | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority
In response to the massacre at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, President Obama said: This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved...
by Bernie Horn | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Pope Francis on Saturday delivered a homily at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Billed as an address on religious freedom, conservatives hoped and expected the Pope to praise their hard-line opposition to abortion, contraception and LGBT rights. Right-wingers could...
by Bernie Horn | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
Recently, The New York Times published a front-page story headlined “Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many U.S. Cities.” Much of the media have run similar reports, including USA Today, Reuters and Time. First we must consider whether the storyline is entirely true....
by Bernie Horn | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, Education
A few states have now released results from the Common Core standardized tests administered to students last spring. The Associated Press recently published a story about them, and over the next couple of months we can expect a flood of press releases, news articles...
by Bernie Horn | Aug 28, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
With the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives controlled by the right wing, it’s no wonder that this Congress has been among the least productive in our nation’s history. But while Congress treads water, some real progress has been made in states and...