by Terrance Heath | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
For four days, the Republicans convened in Cleveland, officially nominated Donald Trump for president, and wingnuttery abounded. A Paler Shade of White Remember when the Republican National Committee issued its post-mortem of the 2012 election? In a rare moment of...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Democratic primary voters, who chose Hillary Clinton because they believed she was the most electable Democrat against Donald Trump, may be in for a rude awakening. They may have picked the least electable Democrat and placed the country and the world in jeopardy of a...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, Education
Stories about historic efforts to address racial segregation in American public education often start with Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. But the story of Little Rock and segregation badly needs updating. Central High became one of...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
On the day Donald Trump gave his speech accepting the nomination of the Republican party, Roger Ailes left Fox News. Ailes' work here was done. Trump's speech was the culmination of the Fox News project. One con man has left the scene, a new con man enters from stage...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
The Gettysburg address, it wasn't. Donald Trump's acceptance speech clocked in at one hour and 15 minutes, and that's not counting the time dilation effect demagoguery can produce in some observers. Lincoln’s speech lasted less than two minutes. A columnist in the New...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 21, 2016 | Blog, Education, Election 2016
Soon after the announcement that Indiana Governor Mike Pence would be the vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party, word came from Democrats that he was an extremist – and not just your garden-variety extremist. "The 'most extreme' vice presidential pick...
