by Dave Johnson | Jul 1, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Donald Trump is selling himself as the champion of working-class voters. He says Democrats and their presumptive presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, are selling them out with trade deals. But Trump is just a fraud. Unfortunately, President Obama is pushing the...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 23, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Wednesday departed from the running exchange of insults with Donald Trump to present her strategy to create an economy “that works for everyone, not just those at the top.” Clinton presented herself as a...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
Using rape-and-pillage corporate practices favored by Wall Street, Donald Trump made himself billions while swindling and bankrupting untold numbers of hourly workers and small businesses. In recounting his "deal-making" experience, Trump says the important thing is...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Some politicians and commentators say that Bernie Sanders is losing leverage because he hasn’t conceded the Democratic primary to front-runner Hillary Clinton. To believe that is to misunderstand both the candidate and his supporters. Sanders received a mandate in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
If you actually read Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speech to his supporters Thursday – rather than the news coverage of it – you will immediately grasp the importance of this weekend's gathering in Chicago of about 3,000 progressive leaders and...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum when labeled a small-hands man because he believes everything about him is huge: big wealth, big wall, big mouth. There's some evidence he thinks expansively about business because he built a billion-dollar empire out of what he...