by Terrance Heath | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Three shootings made national news this week. Most Americans were outraged by all three. However, conservatives were outraged by one, and silent about the other two. For the third time this week, Americans awoke Friday to news of yet another shooting. Still reeling...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Education, Election 2016
Although education policy has not been a prominent issue in the current presidential race, the Democratic Party's platform gives the subject some of its just due with a fairly extensive treatment. In the current draft, which will be finalized on June 8 and 9, there...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The June jobs report – a cheery 287,000 new jobs, with unemployment ticking up to 4.9 percent – is cause for both relief and concern. The relief is that jobs creation picked up after the slowdown of April (revised upward to 144,000) and May (revised downward to...
by Burning Issues Video | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/RkpWT2vqykU[/fve] The United States' interventions in the Middle East over the past decades have been a clear failure by any measure, says Andrew Bacevich, an author on military matters and a retired Boston University history professor, in this...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Financial Reform
Here’s a sentence from the Democratic Party’s recently released draft platform: “We will reform the Federal Reserve so that it is more representative of America as a whole, and we will fight to make sure that executives at financial institutions are not allowed to...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 7, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
It happened again this week, as it has happened more than 100 times so far this year. Police in Louisiana and Minnesota shot and killed two more black men. Police-involved shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minneapolis made headlines this week. But as People’s...
