by Bernie Horn | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog, Education
Days ago, the U.S. Department of Education announced a dramatic policy shift on standardized testing of public school students. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, echoed by President Obama, admitted that a Council of the Great City Schools study was right—there is too...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 26, 2015 | Awards Gala 2015, Blog, Progressive Vision
National People's Action has developed a reputation for not being content to simply hold rallies on the streets outside of symbols of political power. In the words of NPA vice president Bobby Tolbert, “We like to take the crisis to the people who created it.” That...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
After spending $4.5 million on yet another Benghazi investigation, and questioning Hillary Clinton for eleven hours, the GOP's latest Benghazi hearing leaves one major question unanswered: Did they forget who they were messing with? Seriously. Given how long Clinton...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has once again added his voice to a growing movement to bring banking to the United States Postal Service (USPS). "I want to see our post office be reinvigorated," Sanders said in a Fusion interview this week with...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The triumph of Justin Trudeau in the Canadian prime minister election on Sunday over the incumbent conservative government prompted one prominent New York Times columnist on Thursday to suggest that the Republican Party political template of demonizing immigrants and...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Thursday's Clinton-bashing hearing in Congress carried with it that "frog in heating water" feeling. The water is boiling and the country is the frog. This is a period where the country has gone crazy. This has been slowly building since the ascendency of the...
