by Richard Eskow | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
As autumn descends on the nation’s capital, people are saying there’s a darkness on the edge of town. It’s born of the fear, pessimism and uncertainty that have become the Republican political brand. And if the polls are right, there’s every chance that its shadow...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
The GOP is rolling out a list of “principles” and pretending to have a “positive agenda,” because Republicans can’t tell Americans what they really want to do. Twenty years after Newt Gingrich launched the “Contract With America,” Republican Party Chairman Reince...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
The Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court boosted the number of gay marriage states to somewhere between 30 and 35. Needless to say, the floodgates of wingnuttery opened wide. On Monday, the Supreme Court let stand lower court rulings striking down same-sex...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, Education
Americans have become accustomed to seeing the figureheads of big-money interests distort reality to suit their needs and get a lot of well-meaning folks to agree with them in turn. Recall, if you will, as Jonathan Chait recently did in New York magazine, how Wall...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Politicians who make a case for regular people get regular people to come out out to vote for them. Unfortunately, very few are making a case for regular people, with the result that many regular people ask, "Why bother to vote?" There is an American populist revival...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Did you notice that all that fuss over those Central American kids who were crossing the U.S. border alone suddenly died down? As recently as June, more than 10,000 children fleeing unchecked gang violence in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala made it here over the...
