by Robert Borosage | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
The Donald was missing and missed last night in the Fox News Republican debate. Without the bawdy showman, the entire cast seemed smaller, the divisive questions of the Fox moderators more petulant, and the debate endless. The most stunning revelations of the debate...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The Washington Post editorial board sniped at Senator Bernie Sanders Thursday morning for pretending to be “an uncorrupted anti-establishment crusader.” But no shocking revelations followed. The editors didn't unveil previously hidden Sanders ties to the...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Thursday's Washington Post editorial, "Bernie Sanders’s fiction-filled campaign," is kind of fun. Sanders "is playing the role of uncorrupted anti-establishment crusader." But actually he "is not a brave truth-teller. He is a politician selling his own brand of...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Education
It's that time of year when National School Choice Week is staged by – well, we really don't know who – to elevate "education options," primarily charter schools and vouchers, for K-12 students. This year's NSCW apparently includes a record number of events around the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Given the importance of the African-American vote in the Democratic primary and the questions around whether Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – a self-styled "Democratic socialist" in a state that is 1 percent black – can effectively compete for the...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Conservatives are responding to Flint, Michigan’s water crisis with the same depraved indifference that helped contaminate the city’s water and expose thousands of children to lead poisoning. By now, the entire country has heard the tragic story. In 2013, Flint —...
