by Terrance Heath | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
I’ve experience one shooting in my life. I know that no one truly knows what they would do when suddenly faced with their mortality. Ben Carson had a gun pointed at him once. He should know better. On October 1, Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer shot and killed nine...
by Robert Reich | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The Washington Post just ran an attack on Bernie Sanders that distorts not only what he’s saying and seeking but also the basic choices that lie before the nation. Sanders, writes the Post’s David Fahrenthold, “is not just a big-spending liberal. And his agenda is...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog, Education, Election 2016
The differences between the college financing plans offered by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are important – both for their impact on the middle class, and for what they tell us about the candidates and their governing philosophies. Elementary and high school...
by Bill Scher | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016
After Carly Fiorina said at the Republican debate, "If you want to stump a Democrat, ask them to name an accomplishment of Mrs. Clinton," Politico Magazine tested the proposition and asked 20 Democrats. I was asked, and I was not stumped. Here is my contribution:...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 14, 2015 | Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday went to a pillar of the religious right – Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. – to make the case that fighting for economic justice is as moral an undertaking as such cornerstone issues for Christian...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Populist Majority, The New Populism
Whether you believe Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is an “electable” presidential candidate, the populist agenda Sanders has placed at the center of his campaign is absolutely an electable agenda. Once considered the longest of long-shot candidates, Sanders — the only...
