by Bernie Horn | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
Recently, The New York Times published a front-page story headlined “Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many U.S. Cities.” Much of the media have run similar reports, including USA Today, Reuters and Time. First we must consider whether the storyline is entirely true....
by Bill Scher | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
"We don't know what he's going to say until he says it," a White House aide says of Pope Francis. Pope Francis arrives in America on Tuesday, meets with President Obama on Wednesday, addresses Congress on Thursday and then the United Nations on Friday. But no one...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog, Education
Teachers unions are routinely vilified by pundits and politicians on the right and left these days. So when schoolteachers in Seattle began the school year by going on strike, the editorial board of The Seattle Times was quick to accuse the teachers of “demanding too...
by Bill Scher | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016
After Carly Fiorina said at the Republican debate, "If you want to stump a Democrat, ask them to name an accomplishment of Mrs. Clinton," Politico Magazine tested the proposition and asked 20 Democrats. I was asked, and I was not stumped. Here is my contribution:...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Before turning on the Republican debate on Wednesday night, I had begun writing an article on Hillary Clinton’s alarmingly bellicose foreign policy ideas. But Hillary’s hawkish stance is a portrait of restraint in contrast to the adolescent muscle flexing and locker...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Private prisons with a profit incentive to put more and more people in jail? Lobbyists exerting influence against releasing prisoners so their companies can make more money? Contracts requiring governments to imprison a certain number of people for a minimum amount of...
