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...
by Bill Scher | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog
Some have observed that the Democratic convention floor has been less unified than the Republican one last week. This is true. But I suspect the Democrats are going to be better off for it. The Republicans achieved their unity the cheap way. Many Republicans who were...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
I have been hounded for months by a company attempting to collect money for a gym membership that I canceled more than 15 years ago. I was paying $150 a year for the membership before I correctly canceled the membership in writing. That "fitness center" was bought by...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Luz Sosa came to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia as a disappointed Bernie Sanders delegate. But she is leaving fired up to take on big political fights in her home town of Milwaukee. "This election was never about Bernie Sanders. These elections...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Democrats rolled out the big guns Wednesday night in Philadelphia: Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg and Tim Kaine warmed the crowd for what culminated in an emotional farewell by President Obama. Before the network hour, they were preceded by a martial display on the...
