by Terrance Heath | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
While Hillary Clinton was shattering that glass ceiling, Donald Trump pulled off a first of his own: the first presidential candidate to invite a cyber attack against the United States. This presidential election long ago entered the realm of “You Just Can’t Make This...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The long-abused cafeteria workers of the U.S. Senate, who risked their jobs to fight to earn a living wage only to have the private contractor that runs the cafeteria renege on an order to increase their pay, won a key victory this week. The Labor Department declared...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/gARt1GGM7d4[/fve] When Rev. William Barber, best known in progressive circles as the leader of the Moral Mondays protests against the right-wing governor and legislature in North Carolina, was brought to the stage at the Democratic National...
by Bill Scher | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog
Despite continually being charged by Republicans for representing "Obama's Third Term," at the Democratic National Convention Hillary Clinton literally hugged President Barack Obama on Wednesday, and showered him with praise on Thursday. With more than two-thirds of...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday night confidently accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party to be president of the United States. This was history. Our money-laden, poll-driven politics is a tawdry business. The Clintons are burdened by a lot of history on...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump seriously thinks he can woo LGBT voters with empty rhetoric about “protecting” us from terrorist attacks. But who’s going to protect us from his religious extremist friends, and his party’s anti-LGBT platform? Last week,in his acceptance speech at the...
