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...
by Larry Stafford | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Featured
Throughout my life, I’ve wrestled with various forms of anxiety. Particularly as a child, I remember holding a deep, looming sense of dread about a coming apocalypse. I remember trembling in fear during thunderstorms, as I’d hear the sky roar and watch dark clouds...
by Thom Hartmann | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Featured
Photo credit: National Archives / Wikimedia / cc The coronavirus crisis has turned the fact that we don’t make anything in America anymore from a topic for philosophical and political debate into a crisis in our hospitals causing people to die and endangering our...
by Gloria Totten | Mar 26, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Health
A few days ago, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick went on Fox News to deliver the message, “Let’s get back to work. Let’s get back to living. Let’s be smart about it, and those of us that are 70 plus, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country.”...
by Joy Blackwood, Natasha DeJarnett, Surili Sutaria Patel | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Joint Base San Antonio / cc There’s been a massive failure of leadership in the United States in preparation, containment, treatment and protecting our residents from the cascading effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. As Board members of Physicians for...
by Will Tanzman | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Lorianne DiSabato, Flickr / cc A core lesson from the Illinois primary is that it’s not enough for a candidate to have the right message if there is not sufficient organization on the ground. Tuesday was a rough night for the Left at the top of the...
