by Dave Johnson | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
When Sen. Bernie Sanders initially began running for president, his hope was to "trigger the conversation" about the way the economic and political system is rigged by the billionaires and their corporations. He wanted to begin a movement around a vision of how the...
by Roger Hickey | Aug 11, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016
Many young people are discovering a historical secret: There was a time, only a few decades ago, when almost all Americans could find a way to attend college or university (like the University of California or New York University) and emerge with a degree without...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 27, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The stakes were high for the speech by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to the national gathering of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Saturday night. Sanders’ speech to the civil rights organization, whose first president was Rev....
by Terrance Heath | Jul 23, 2015 | Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker says that he, out of all the GOP candidates, will be “a president who will fight and win for America.” His record as governor shows how much America stands to lose if Walker wins. What would President Scott Walker’s America look like?...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 21, 2015 | Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
Ohio governor John Kasich, the 16th candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, is neither the moderate Republican nor the “compassionate conservative” he pretends to be, but he still won’t get the Republican nomination. This isn’t Kasich’s first time at the rodeo....
by Terrance Heath | Jul 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
When Republicans finally choose their nominee for president, he or she will be already bought and paid for by one or more of the GOP sugar daddies of the 2016 election. Never before have so many with little chance of — and even less interest in — being president,...