by Richard Eskow | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog
Not so long ago, Social Security was endangered by a “bipartisan” consensus that sought to cut its benefits – already lower than those of comparable countries – as part of a “grand bargain.” President Obama even put a slow-motion benefit cut into one of his proposed...
by Bernie Horn | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
America is not really a nation of laws. Our legislative system governs only the most egregious behavior. The way Americans treat each other day-to-day—attitude and etiquette, willingness or wariness, prejudice or tolerance—is driven mostly by our national culture. Our...
by Bill Scher | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog
The notoriously Machiavellian Republican operative Lee Atwater once famously revealed his party's strategy to use so-called "dog whistles" to communicate racist sentiments without overtly racist language: You start out in 1954 by saying, “N****r, n****r, n****r.” By...
by Roger Hickey | Jun 5, 2016 | Blog
As Bernie Sanders has continued to win primaries and caucuses in the Democratic primary, many hard-core Hillary Clinton supporters have called on him to quit the race, arguing that his campaigning, featuring huge rallies of enthusiastic supporters, is somehow hurting...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 5, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In the end, Muhammad Ali wasn't just the most important athlete of his time. And he wasn't just a world-changing activist. He was even more than those things: he was a unified human being. His occupation was inseparable from his aspirations, his spiritual ideals...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog
Rush Limbaugh knows less about evolution than the average seventh grader, and now it looks like Limbaugh's own failure to evolve may land him on the endangered list. Rush Limbaugh is confused about evolution (among other things). On his radio show, Limbaugh claimed...
