by Jeff Bryant | Jun 25, 2015 | Blog, Education
As the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, you can count on seeing a lot of glowing stories about the great education progress made in New Orleans since a natural disaster killed nearly 2,000 people, emptied a beloved city, and gave public school...
by Bill Scher | Jun 25, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Republicans, who have complained for years that the Left wants to drum religious voices out of the "public square," suddenly want the Pope to stick to Sunday mass. "I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog
Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken some heat as a presidential candidate for seeming to not be a strong progressive ally on immigration reform. Last week, Sanders moved to clear the air. Sanders (I-Vt.) pledged his support for comprehensive immigration reform this past...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast track passes. Our Congress - the supposed representatives of We the People - voted to cut themselves and us out of the process of deciding what "the rules" for doing business "in the 21st Century" will be. How do the plutocrats and oligarchs and their giant...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Days after 21-year-old Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people during a Bible study at Charleston, South Carolina’s historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the discovery of his online manifesto shed more light on his motives. It also reveals the...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
The state of North Carolina is finally about to face a federal judge over its passage of what has been deemed the harshest voter suppression law in the nation – one of nearly 30 voter suppression laws passed since the Supreme Court eviscerated the Voting Rights Act in...