by Bill Scher | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog
Directly lifting from Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, Donald Trump has declared himself the "law and order" candidate. At a Virginia rally Monday he said, "American police and law enforcement are all that separate civilization from total chaos and the destruction of...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
Eric Holder certainly has changed since his days at Columbia University. According to the New York Times, "as a boyish-looking freshman" he "was recruited by upperclassmen to help take over the R.O.T.C. office," which they claimed as "a student center named for...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Even as Bernie Sanders was endorsing Hillary Clinton Tuesday in New Hampshire, expressions of dismay and outrage from his supporters flooded social media. Naturally, Donald Trump piled on, tweeting that Bernie Sanders “has totally sold out to corrupt Hillary Clinton,”...
by Burning Issues Video | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/swfAHGk8mWk[/fve] The shift in foreign aid spending from the State Department to the Defense Department since 9/11 has created significant problems for U.S. diplomacy and peacemaking, says Colby Goodman of the Center for International Policy in...
by Linda Burnham | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
A thick strand in the history of U.S. policing is rooted back in the slave patrols of the 19th century. Patty rollers were authorized to stop, question, search, harass and summarily punish any Black person they encountered. The five- and six-pointed badges many of...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The draft of the Republican platform at first glance sounds pretty good when it comes to trade. So how do they thread the needle between assumed-candidate Donald Trump's words on trade and most of the party's – and Trump's own – actual positions? Those positions...
