by Sarah Jaffe | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
At a press event in Kingston, New York, a Hudson Valley community about 90 miles north of Manhattan, the local Democratic congressional candidate, Zephyr Teachout, earlier this month called for a debate. But not with her Republican opponent, John Faso. Instead she...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 18, 2016 | Democracy
People fighting the private prison industry scored a huge victory Thursday when the Justice Department issued a memo announcing that it would begin the process of "reducing – and ultimately ending – our use of privately operated prisons." That memo was written by...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 17, 2016 | Democracy, Economy, Election 2016
Talk about dog-whistle politics. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a speech in Wisconsin Tuesday night that was virtually a textbook example of how to play race politics to win white conservative votes: Feign sympathy for black people while vowing to...
by Libero Della Piana | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
President Obama gave yet another historic speech Wednesday at the mass memorial service for the five Dallas police officers gunned down during a protest of the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in St. Paul, Minn. In a way few...
by Linda Burnham | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
A thick strand in the history of U.S. policing is rooted back in the slave patrols of the 19th century. Patty rollers were authorized to stop, question, search, harass and summarily punish any Black person they encountered. The five- and six-pointed badges many of...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 9, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
[fve]https://youtu.be/oUW7n6X5krM[/fve] Senate Democrats are planning to roll out a package of moderately incremental campaign finance proposals they call the "We the People" plan. They hope to take this plan to the public during campaign season this Fall. The New...
