by Robert Borosage | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Here are five takeaways from the Republican primary in South Carolina and the Democratic caucuses in Nevada. 1. Populism Is Still Rising The populist revolt in both parties continues to build. In South Carolina, Donald Trump scorned George W. Bush, who is immensely...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 19, 2016 | Blog
That didn’t take long. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on Saturday morning, after expiring in his sleep on Friday night. The conspiracy theories started late Sunday, and the GOP presidential frontrunner was spouting them. At the time of his death,...
by Bill Scher | Feb 19, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
For a moment, after he underperformed his poll numbers in Iowa, it seemed like our Donald Trump nightmare was over. But then Trump sightly overperformed in New Hampshire, despite lacking a traditional get-out-the-vote effort. And Trump's poll numbers in South Carolina...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Progressive Vision
Bleak news for fossil fuels is piling up higher than an icy Washington snowbank in the capital’s most precipitation-challenged state. Peabody Energy, the nation’s biggest coal company, is limping toward bankruptcy after its shares sank 99 percent over the past two...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman went to California's Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and aquarium to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Froman claimed that TPP would be good for the environment, and Monterey's local economy. A trade...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
There's a dangerous myth being perpetrated that the American public has given up on publican education. Those making this claim point to the swelling enrollments of charter schools and the spread of school vouchers that allow parents to transfer their children out of...
