by Robert Borosage | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The Democratic Party Platform Committee convened in Orlando, Fla., over the weekend. Once more, the Sanders delegates pushed hard for inclusion of fundamental reforms. Once more, they made progress on many issues and were rejected on several. The campaign hasn’t...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders’ "political revolution" scored some impressive wins this weekend at the Democratic Party Platform Committee meeting in Orlando, adding to its victories last month in St. Louis. ABC News called the resulting document “exceptionally progressive.”...
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...
