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...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
Polls are open Tuesday in four cities that are listed among the 10 "worst cities for black Americans" and two of "America's most segregated cities," according to reports published last year by 24/7 Wall St. The four worst cities for black people are all in Illinois....
by Digby | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
I wrote this for Salon this morning: This past week we saw an escalation in the building of Donald Trump's authoritarian campaign for president. After a tumultuous week in before in which he won big after having refused to disavow the KKK, he appeared on the debate...
