by Isaiah J. Poole | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Health, Tax Reform
It's "Neoliberals Gang Up on Bernie Sanders Week" along the corridor of Washington establishment think-tanks that include the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute and a Brookings offspring, the Tax Policy Center. Out of this corridor came not one, but two...
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...
