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...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday that the April goods and services trade deficit was $37.4 billion in April, up $1.9 billion from a revised $35.5 billion in March. (March was previously reported as $40.4 billion before the revision.) According to the report:...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added only a startling few 38,000 jobs in May, the weakest number in six years. The official unemployment rate declined dramatically to 4.7 percent, recording not new hiring but new...
