by Isaiah J. Poole | May 19, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/q2WUaVGTZu8[/fve] The one major achievement that has eluded Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaign was winning the majority of the African-American vote in a primary. In fact, Sanders has never registered more than a third of the...
by Robert Borosage | May 18, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders won the Oregon primary big last night – 54 percent to 45 percent for Hillary Clinton – while ending in a virtual tie in Kentucky (Clinton, 46.8 percent vs. Sanders, 46.3 percent). Both states were closed primaries, with independents barred from voting....
by Bill Scher | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
You can say this for Donald Trump; he doesn't delegate the job of attack dog. He likes to scorch his own earth. In what has to be an unprecedented interview, Trump gleefully shared with the New York Times his innermost thoughts on how he plans to rhetorically fillet...
by Courtney Freudenthal | May 12, 2016 | Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
Despite their generous philanthropy as they battle massive levels of student debt and a bleak job market, millennials are frequently misunderstood as narcissistic and social-media-obsessed. It might then come as a surprise that today’s young generation deeply cares...
by Robert Borosage | May 11, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
West Virginia really likes Bernie Sanders. He swept the Democratic primary yesterday, winning 51.4 percent to Clinton’s 36 percent, even in the face of the mainstream media essentially declaring the race over. Speaking in Salem, Ore., Sanders described the key to his...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Health, Tax Reform
It's "Neoliberals Gang Up on Bernie Sanders Week" along the corridor of Washington establishment think-tanks that include the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute and a Brookings offspring, the Tax Policy Center. Out of this corridor came not one, but two...
