by Bill Scher | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Karl Rove is making sense. In his Wall Street Journal column, Rove makes the mathematically accurate point that Donald Trump has no claim to the Republican nomination if he goes to the convention with only a plurality of delegates and not a majority. A majority, The...
by Bill Scher | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016
Great America PAC just dropped $1 million on a TV ad touting Donald Trump as a "unifier." What's important is not the disingenuousness of the message, but the source. It's a super PAC ad. And Donald Trump claims to disavow all super PACs. In October he said: "I am...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders is ignored by the media, dismissed by the pundits and the president, but he keeps on rising. Donald Trump continues to outrage, generating well-deserved condemnation in the media, opposition of panicked Republican poobahs and a barrage of negative ads...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Steven Pearlstein, in the ominously titled "What Bernie Sanders would do to America" at The Washington Post, warns that asking our government to do things like raising the minimum wage to $15, extending public education by four years, providing Medicare-for-All and...
by Thomas Palley | Mar 21, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The Democratic Party establishment has recently found itself discomforted by Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign to return the party to its modern roots of New Deal social democracy. The establishment’s response has included a complex coupling of elite media and elite...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 21, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy, Election 2016
[fve]https://youtu.be/LkIOxvlRS5c[/fve] What should voters make of claims from Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers that our military is weak and underfunded? According to Miriam Pemberton, a research fellow and defense expert at the Institute for Policy...
