by Bill Scher | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog, Climate
We in America do a poor job chronicling what works and building on success. So kudos to Mother Jones and its reporter Gabriel Kahn for covering how California and its governor Jerry Brown have created a template for cutting carbon emissions, creating green jobs and...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 20, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade
For some time now most of the people in this country have been under economic pressure. Pay is not going up very much or at all, while living costs keep rising. One recent statistic stands out – 63 percent of Americans would have difficulty raising $500 to cover an...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Once again proving the bigger bully, Donald Trump may have caused the wingnut media site Breitbart News to self-destruct, after his campaign manager assaulted one of the site's reporters. It all started at a Trump press conference in Jupiter, Florida, when Breitbart...
by Bill Scher | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
The good people of Politico Magazine asked me to sketch out how Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton (and asked a conservative to show how Clinton could beat Trump.) I gave it my level best but the thought experiment shows the steep climb Trump faces. Here's the...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
With trade as a major issue in this election season (voters are against it), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is clearly in trouble. All but one (John Kasich) of the remaining presidential candidates oppose it, with both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders actively...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, Education
When Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders fielded a question about charter schools at a Democratic Party presidential primary town hall recently, his answer left a lot of folks scratching their heads. Specifically, when an audience member asked, "Are charter schools a viable...