by Richard Eskow | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
“Join us, join us,” a police-battered Tom Hayden shouted to passing delegates from the 1968 Democratic Convention. Hayden’s life was a test of character. He saw his colleagues and heroes gunned down, assassinated, or shunned. He endured the privations of jail and the...
by O.J. Semans | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
Many of the over 1 million Native Americans living on reservations do not have reasonable voting access. Some have to travel tens of miles, sometimes more than 100 miles, to vote, when most people live a few miles from a polling station. Add to that longstanding...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
Michael Hiltzik and Richard Eskow discuss bank fraud on The Zero Hour The Better Business Bureau pulled Wells Fargo’s accreditation last week, which is what it's supposed to do when businesses cheat their customers. What took so long? If we judged big banks by the...
by Martha Burk | Oct 23, 2016 | Blog
Seemed like only seconds after Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” in the final debate that women retaliated. In what Glamour magazine dubbed a “bad-ass backlash” hashtags like #NastyWomenVote and jokes about Nasty Woman being Trump’s favorite...
by Bill Scher | Oct 21, 2016 | Blog
Members of the Main Street Alliance, the coalition of socially responsible small business owners, have been speaking out against Donald Trump in the letters pages of their area newspapers. Here are two recent letters published in the New York Times and New Jersey's...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 21, 2016 | Blog
Do we need to cut Donald Trump some slack? The man, yes, may be as narcissistic as they come. And he certainly appears to be a serial sexual predator. Mix in racism and xenophobia and you have a distinctly unsavory character. But did Donald Trump actually choose this...
