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...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog
With the advent of Donald Trump, what was once covert in the Republican message has become overt. Yesterday's dog whistle is today's screaming siren. Case in point: anti-immigrant bigotry, which was most recently expressed in Donald Trump Jr.’s recent...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog, Education
A new report is making big headlines for showing that public schools across the nation are experiencing severe problems with teacher shortages that are apt to develop into a “crisis” if left unaddressed. The report from an education think tank called the Learning...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog
Everyone has an opinion on what Hillary Clinton should do in the Monday's debate, and this is mine. Hopefully I will be wrong enough to earn a regular column on the New York Times op-ed page. This election season so far has been about Donald Trump, and not about the...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Leave it to Donald Trump to stand in black church, before a somehow still overwhelmingly white audience, and promise to implement New York City’s racist, unconstitutional stop-and-frisk policing nationwide. In the past week, Donald Trump has insulted an African...
by Jim Hightower | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In their ongoing, all-out assault to crush labor unions, corporate forces have fabricated a cultural myth to undermine popular support for labor: Unions, they insist, are no longer needed. They tell us that in today’s entrepreneurial economy, workers must compete with...
