by Jeff Bryant | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Education
The anticipated role education was presumed to have in this week's midterm election generally did not pan out. Most analysts have concluded the election results derived from a wave of voter "discontent" mostly due to widespread economic dissatisfaction. Republican...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Trade
A "week of action" starts Saturday against "fast-track" trade promotion authority legislation, which would be used to usher in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "trade" (i.e. corporate rights) agreement. Click here to tell Congress to vote no on “fast-track”...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
Most of us did not escape that moment on the playground when the bully came over and demanded our candy. What could we do? The bruising boy and the mean girl used fear and intimidation to get their way. If that didn’t work, there were other methods. Sometimes the...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Call it the Election That Never Was. We've heard a lot of talk about this week's election, but the election we needed is the one we didn't see. The important issues, the issues that affected people's daily lives, were never debated. Voters never heard a genuine...
by Rev. William Barber | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
DURHAM, NC: Now that the 2014 Midterm election results are in for North Carolina, the North Carolina NAACP and Forward Together Moral Movement have released the following statement: The diverse coalition that makes up the Forward Together Moral Monday movement came...
by Digby | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog
I know we're all supposed to be throwing on our hair shirts and wandering around the streets begging for forgiveness for being losers but I just don't have the stomach for it this time out. I expected this loss, everything pointed toward it and I don't think it says...
