by Jeff Bryant | Mar 16, 2016 | Blog, Education
Walmart's recent decision to close 269 stores was a blip on the national media radar, but it was big news in small towns and suburban neighborhoods across America. “Now we have to figure out how to do our shopping," a Walmart customer in Baldwin Hills,...
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...