by Terrance Heath | Oct 29, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
A riot in New Hampshire, and a likely acquittal in Ferguson, Missouri, underscore that blacks and whites still live in very different Americas, under very different rules. The comparison was inevitable, as the images of unrest in Ferguson were still fresh in the minds...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 29, 2014 | Blog
Originally published in Alternet A recent poll showed that more than half of all people in this country don’t believe that the American dream is real. Fifty-nine percent of those polled in June agreed that “the American dream has become impossible for most people to...
by Robert Reich | Oct 29, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
Commenting on a recent student suicide at an Alaska high school, Alaska’s Republican Congressman Don Young said suicide didn’t exist in Alaska before “government largesse” gave residents an entitlement mentality. “When people had to work and had to provide and had to...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 28, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
"It's the economy, stupid" is from a sign that hung in the Clinton "war room" during the 1992 election. The point was that the economy was the only thing that really mattered in the election. This election is a statement that the economy is not working for people....
by Richard Eskow | Oct 28, 2014 | Blog, Economy
An Amazon River legend says that its famous pink river dolphins sometimes become shapeshifters and assume human form to seduce unwary travelers and lure them to a magical city called Encante. The catch is that this city is underwater. Once you’ve been there you can...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 28, 2014 | Blog, Economy
The most revealing moment of our ongoing 2014 election season? That may have come last week in a Florida gubernatorial debate when former governor Charlie Crist, now a Democrat, and current governor Rick Scott, a Republican, went mano a mano over who “has led a more...
