by Bill Scher | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog
Winning India's cooperation with cutting greenhouse gas pollution is a critical goal if we are to avert a climate crisis, as it is the fourth-largest emitter in the world. The rapidly developing country has resisted adopting strict pollution reduction targets for fear...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Way back in January, Donald Trump got himself a ton of prime publicity on the backs of veterans. He organized a benefit that he said was for them. But really he did it because he didn’t feel like debating other GOP presidential candidates that night. At the event, he...
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...
