by Robert Borosage | Mar 16, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
As expected, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won big in the “Mini Super Tuesday” primaries Tuesday. On the Republican side, the outsiders – Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz – will brawl all the way into what still may be a contested convention. On the Democratic side,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Here's what remains true after Tuesday's primary results: Sen. Bernie Sanders will arrive at the 2016 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia July 25-28 with a large support base, serious money, and the ability to ask for even more money for progressive groups. This is...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
In using the anger of his supporters to justify the escalating violence at his campaign rallies, Donald Trump is cynically exploiting a racial privilege as old, even older, than America itself. At a rally in North Carolina, Trump supporter John McGraw, 78, sucker...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/zqiV0qjgXVg[/fve] We've been hearing a lot recently about a "New American Majority" of black and brown Democratic voters. Progressive whites, together with progressive people of color, reportedly make up 51 percent of all eligible voters today....
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Education
Folks are disgusted with Donald Trump's "University" that lured students – "with tantalizing promises of riches," according to the New York Times – into taking on huge amounts of debt to earn real estate degrees that were "basically worthless," according to an...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Trade
[fve]https://youtu.be/Sadt-sWxNDo[/fve] The U.S.-South Korea (KORUS) free trade agreement is now four years old. How's it doing? Out trade deficit with that country has doubled, costing tens and hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs. The Office of the U.S. Trade...
