by Thom Hartmann | May 25, 2020 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, Featured
Photo credit: DOJ, Wikimedia Commons / cc Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, had a phone call with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016...
by Bernie Horn | May 6, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
For many Americans, vote-by-mail will be a matter of life and death come November. There will be no widely available vaccine by then, and even if an anti-viral medicine is proven broadly effective this summer, it would be difficult to manufacture a sufficient quantity...
by Steven Rosenfeld | May 5, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Across America, election officials responsible for the details of running elections have a clear idea of what is needed to shift to mostly mail-in voting in upcoming spring, summer and fall elections to protect voters from the coronavirus. But pockets of conservatives...
by Erin George, Ravi Mangla | Apr 24, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured
The failure of the White House to respond to the Coronavirus pandemic has given Andrew Cuomo an unlikely turn in the spotlight. Cuomo, for his part, has taken the opportunity and run with it: hosting daily news briefings and running comedy routines with his younger...
by James Mumm | Apr 22, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Protest
It feels like everything is on the line right now for our country, our planet, and for humanity. We have a global pandemic in the middle of a climate emergency. The corporate-conservative Radical Right has taken over country after country. Inequality and inequity are...
by Miles Mogulescu | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: James Barragan / Facebook / cc The politics of the pandemic is about to get nasty and divisive. And Trump thrives on the politics of nastiness and division. Chants of “lock her up” will likely be replaced by chants of “open it up.” And unless Democrats...
