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,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Election 2016
Just when you thought that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's "outreach" to African-American voters could not get more absurd, The New York Times on Thursday published the "draft script" of an interview Trump is scheduled to videorecord Saturday in...
by Martha Burk | Sep 1, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
Donald Trump made a phony photo-op trip to Mexico City on Wednesday, where his Mexican "rapists, murderers, and drug dealers" miraculously morphed into "amazing people" who are "beyond reproach." The Republican presidential candidate's joint appearance with Mexican...
