by Dave Johnson | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
When "Jeb!" Bush started campaigning for president, people starting asking, "Wait, was W the smart one?" Now the rest of the Republican candidates are causing people to ask, "Wait, is Trump the reasonable one?" Wednesday night we will all get a chance to see the next...
by James A. Haught | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
One of my history-minded friends has a long-range political view summed up in three words: Liberals always win. Complex social struggles may take centuries or decades, he says, but they eventually bring victory for human rights, more democratic liberties and other...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Anti-gay Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has gone back to work, and back to square one. Although she shows no signs of going away, conservatives want Davis’ saga to be over — and soon. Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who went to jail rather than issue — or...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Should the U.S. enter into special trade relationships with countries that violate basic principles of human dignity? Will our country prioritize people, human rights, and morality — or corporate profits? Pride@Work hopes our country will prioritize human rights in...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Jeff Smisek, the guy forced by scandal to resign last week as CEO of the world’s fourth-largest airline, is a major reason American workers can’t get a raise. Smisek and his overpaid boardroom buddies nationwide have swindled American workers and American communities...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Jeremy Corbyn, a sexagenarian socialist and vegetarian teetotaler, and for 32 years a prickly, independent backbencher in the British parliament, has been elected in a landslide to lead the British Labour Party. The victory of the “British Bernie Sanders” raises the...
