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 Terrance Heath | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Populist Majority, The New Populism
Whether you believe Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is an “electable” presidential candidate, the populist agenda Sanders has placed at the center of his campaign is absolutely an electable agenda. Once considered the longest of long-shot candidates, Sanders — the only...
by Bernie Horn | Aug 25, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
In February 2015, the governor of Pennsylvania issued a moratorium on executions. In May, Nebraska became the 19th state, and the seventh state since 2007, to abolish the death penalty. And weeks ago, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled the death penalty...
by Bill Scher | Jul 20, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority
Last week I wrote that the GOP is on track to lose the Latino vote yet again. On the day Republicans face up to this problem, they at least know what they have to do: suck it up on immigration reform. But Republicans have a bigger demographic challenge looming over...
by Richard Long | Jun 26, 2015 | Democracy, Populist Majority
It took a while, but law finally caught up to public opinion. In this morning’s historic ruling on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court came around to an idea that the public had been supportive of for years. Marriage equality is now the law of the land, and despite...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 16, 2015 | Current Issues, Populism2015, Populist Majority
In the early stages of any presidential campaign, the race for money is accompanied by an “ideas primary” as candidates begin to frame the purpose and platform of their campaigns. What’s striking about the salad days of the 2016 race is that populism is leading the...