by Richard Eskow | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
When Donald Trump’s Republican Party convenes in Cleveland, three shadows will haunt the arena. They won’t talk about these shadows on television, but if you look closely you're sure to see them. The first shadow is that of the extremist Republican right. Since the...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
Eric Holder certainly has changed since his days at Columbia University. According to the New York Times, "as a boyish-looking freshman" he "was recruited by upperclassmen to help take over the R.O.T.C. office," which they claimed as "a student center named for...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders’ "political revolution" scored some impressive wins this weekend at the Democratic Party Platform Committee meeting in Orlando, adding to its victories last month in St. Louis. ABC News called the resulting document “exceptionally progressive.”...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Financial Reform
Here’s a sentence from the Democratic Party’s recently released draft platform: “We will reform the Federal Reserve so that it is more representative of America as a whole, and we will fight to make sure that executives at financial institutions are not allowed to...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog, Economy
On July 1, at the start of the Independence Day weekend, we learned that income inequality in this country became even worse last year. Economic inequality produces scars that last a lifetime – and even longer. That’s one reason why President Obama said in 2013 that...
