by Terrance Heath | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
A week after Ted Cruz’s defended it in a failed attempt to boost his presidential bid, the battle over North Carolina’s anti-LGBT “bathroom bill” is exposing fissures in the conservative movement. Since North Carolina hastily passed HB 2, in reaction to the city of...
by Bill Scher | May 10, 2016 | Blog
"I think I'll get a lot of his supporters" Donald Trump said on CNN of Bernie Sanders voters. A few seconds earlier, Trump smeared Sanders, saying he "could be beyond a socialist." That sums up his problem. Trump and Sanders are like oil and water, and so are their...
by Leo Gerard | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
On the fourth anniversary of the Korean trade deal, its lofty promises have been revealed as putrid pie in the sky: More jobs lost. No exports gained. Just like NAFTA, just like China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), free traders swore that the Korean...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has helped make a little medical history. The good doctor holds over 95 patents. He pulled off the first pig-to-human cell transplant to treat diabetes. And one of the drugs he designed and developed, Abraxane, keeps cancerous cells from...
by Bill Scher | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Donald Trump has a trick he likes to use when he wants to communicate two different messages to two different constituencies: incoherence. It doesn't take much to expose incoherence, yet it seems to flummox media headline writers who are itchy to summarize only one...
by Richard Eskow | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
A CSX freight train derailed in Washington, D.C. last week. The Washington Post reported that ethanol, which is colorless and highly flammable, was leaking out of one of the overturned cars in the accident’s immediate aftermath. The 14-car derailment also “spilled...
