by Terrance Heath | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Progressive Vision
Until recently, most of the voices raised in protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline have been those of adults and elders. That’s starting to change, as Native American youth make their voices heard in opposition to the pipeline. That’s no coincidence, according to...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Education
During tonight's much anticipated debate between presidential candidates Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, education may not get much attention, but outside the debate hall, throngs of public education advocates will urge the contestants to address what they see as a...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
You saw what happened recently with Wells Fargo. They scammed some of their customers some of the time. Payday lending is about scamming all of the customers all of the time. At Ourfuture.org, we have long been warning about and exposing the payday lending debt-trap...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
We’re told that Monday night’s confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could draw 100 million viewers and “rank among television benchmarks like the finales of ‘MASH’ and ‘Cheers.’” We’re not being told that it will be a debate on the issues of greatest...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 23, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, a Donald Trump supporter managed to somehow surpass even Donald Trump himself in sheer, unadulterated ignorance of our nation’s history regarding race. Meet Kathy Miller. She is — or was, until this week — Donald Trump’s campaign chair for Ohio’s northeast...
by Digby | Sep 23, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
I wrote about the conservative movement's last breaths for Salon today: That day 15 months ago when Donald Trump descended that escalator to announce his candidacy, it was obvious to me that whether or not he won, he was going to turn the race into something we had...