by Dave Johnson | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Election 2016
Donald Trump touts his business "success" as a major qualification for running the country. So how does Trump run his businesses and what does this mean for the country? And what about this idea that government should be run like a business, anyway? The Republican...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 13, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Let's hope that a story published by Politico on Monday about the kind of campaigns Democrats plan to run to retake the Senate proves inaccurate. "Democrats' surprising strategy to win the Senate: Be boring," is the headline for the story, which describes the overall...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After having stated she is against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and opposes a lame-duck vote on that agreement after the election, President Obama on Thursday endorsed his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, in her bid for the presidency. Then the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2016 | Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
[fve]https://youtu.be/Y93WutGCyf4[/fve]Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Good Jobs Nation, discusses the effort to get a $15 minimum wage plank written into the Democratic Party platform. As members of the Democratic Party platform committee entered the...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Clinton became the “presumptive nominee” of the Democratic Party Tuesday night, and will be the first woman ever to win the presidential nomination of a major party. Clinton won primaries in New Jersey, New Mexico and California, the large states at issue. She...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Education, Election 2016
Revelations from documents connected to Trump University are generating outrage across the political spectrum, from my colleague Terrance Heath, who called it "a scheme to transfer wealth from people who had little," to the conservative journal National Review, which...
