by Scott Klinger | Aug 12, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
Our country has no shortage of big problems. While big challenges are nothing new for Americans, how we deal with them has changed. Fifty years ago, rising social unrest forced Congress to deal with big things — like voting rights, immigration, and access to health...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 7, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
Donald Trump commandeered the stage in last night’s Republican presidential debate. Planted in the middle by his lead in the polls, framed by his signature orange bird’s-nest hair, he presented a bloated, looming, ominous visage, a surly Gulliver surrounded by...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 7, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
In the run-up to the first Republican presidential debate, a flurry of news stories about the candidates offered glimpses of oligarchy in action. Consider: Jeb Bush’s largest Super PAC has already raised $103 million, most of it collected before he even officially...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 6, 2015 | Democracy
As fate would have it, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act coincides with the first 2016 Republican presidential nomination debate. This confluence is important, for the people who will stand on the debate stage in Ohio are among those who are...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy
This weekend gave us another one of those every-four-year stories about this presidential election being the one in which the Republican Party finally breaks through and wins more than a one-in-10 share of the black vote. The latest version of this story came from The...
by Emily Foster | Jul 30, 2015 | Democracy
After more than 100,000 people on Wednesday evening participated in over 3,500 organizational meetings to rally support and hear the message of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator today appeared before a Hispanic business association to talk...
