by Robert Borosage | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
“Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with her here tonight.”— Bernie Sanders, in his address to the Democratic National Convention. The first day of the Democratic National Convention culminated in Sen. Bernie Sanders’ forceful...
by Roger Hickey | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Two Democratic parties will meet in Philadelphia this week. It is crucially important that they unite to defeat Donald Trump – and then work together to win progressive change for all Americans. A huge impediment to unity has been removed: Debbie Wasserman Schultz...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Democratic primary voters, who chose Hillary Clinton because they believed she was the most electable Democrat against Donald Trump, may be in for a rude awakening. They may have picked the least electable Democrat and placed the country and the world in jeopardy of a...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
On the day Donald Trump gave his speech accepting the nomination of the Republican party, Roger Ailes left Fox News. Ailes' work here was done. Trump's speech was the culmination of the Fox News project. One con man has left the scene, a new con man enters from stage...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
The Gettysburg address, it wasn't. Donald Trump's acceptance speech clocked in at one hour and 15 minutes, and that's not counting the time dilation effect demagoguery can produce in some observers. Lincoln’s speech lasted less than two minutes. A columnist in the New...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 21, 2016 | Blog, Education, Election 2016
Soon after the announcement that Indiana Governor Mike Pence would be the vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party, word came from Democrats that he was an extremist – and not just your garden-variety extremist. "The 'most extreme' vice presidential pick...
