by George Goehl and Ai-jen Poo | Nov 3, 2016 | #BestOfUs2016, Blog, Democracy, Election 2016
George Goehl and Ai-jen Poo hours before their election road trip. Some couples, in the days leading up to their wedding, are caught up in final preparations: a last-minute dance class, attending to a late RSVP, or doing some work on your vows. There are lots of...
by Sarah Jaffe | Sep 29, 2016 | Climate, Democracy
The first sign that not everything is normal as you drive down Highway 1806 toward the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota is a checkpoint manned by camouflage-clad National Guard troops. The inspection on Sept. 13 was perfunctory; they simply asked if we knew...
by Bill Moyers | Sep 19, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Let’s call the whole thing off. Not the election, although if we only had a magic reset button we could pretend this sorry spectacle never happened and start all over. No, we mean the presidential debates — which, if the present format...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 14, 2016 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/tYyLRIyv9H8[/fve]Cellphone video shot by someone attending Donald Trump's appearance at a Flint, Mich. church shows the Republican presidential candidate being interrupted and confronted by protesters. The Associated Press reported...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 8, 2016 | Climate, Democracy
KOTV reports Thursday night on the hundreds who gathered in Tulsa in support of the Standing Rock Sioux and others opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. The fight between Native Americans and the financial interests dead set on pushing an environmentally hazardous oil...
by Miles Mogulescu | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Election 2016
For this unenthusiastic Hillary Clinton voter—and I’m sure I’m not alone—there are two main reasons for voting for Hillary and urging others to do the same. The first is to keep Donald Trump’s tiny fingers away from the nuclear codes and to prevent a racist,...
