by Bill Scher | Feb 17, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
In the Democratic presidential nomination race, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are in a tight race for Nevada, but Clinton is far ahead in South Carolina and 10 of the early March contests. A Sanders win in Nevada could change those numbers, but the likelihood...
by Bill Scher | Feb 17, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Conventional wisdom states that Republicans have every political reason to block anyone President Obama nominates for the Supreme Court. Any Republican who voted for an Obama nominee could face a primary challenge. The people who care most about judicial battles are...
by Robert Reich | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization. It died in 2016. RIP. It has been replaced by warring tribes: Evangelicals opposed to abortion, gay marriage, and science. Libertarians...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
It's a distressingly familiar story: African-American unemployment nationwide remains more than twice that of white people: In the fourth quarter of 2015, according to a recent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute using Labor Department data, unemployment among...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death Saturday, the court's ideologically conservative 5-4 majority is no more. One big case this affects is Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which the conservative ideological majority on the...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Economy
One percenters have it all, extra houses, extra cars, even an exclusive legal defense if they kill, “affluenza,” to keep them out of jail. But until last week, they felt unfairly denied access to the benefits of social welfare organizations, United Way, Habitat for...
