by Nancy Altman | Aug 29, 2016 | Election 2016, Retirement Security
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has released a new ad that reveals that either he doesn’t understand Social Security or he wants to galvanize opposition to Social Security. Either way, his rhetoric undermines our collective security. In his ad, Trump...
by Miles Mogulescu | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Working in the film business, I briefly met the Donald Trump Republican presidential campaign’s new CEO, Steve Bannon, during the 1990s when he was a Hollywood investment banker. As one producer whom Bannon helped raise capital for told me, even back then he was an...
by Miles Mogulescu | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
As Sen. Elizabeth Warren is fond of saying, “personnel is policy.” With a Hillary Clinton victory looking increasingly likely, the question of what types of personnel Clinton would appoint to top administration positions becomes increasingly crucial to defining what...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 17, 2016 | Democracy, Economy, Election 2016
Talk about dog-whistle politics. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a speech in Wisconsin Tuesday night that was virtually a textbook example of how to play race politics to win white conservative votes: Feign sympathy for black people while vowing to...
by Leo Gerard | Aug 16, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Defense/Foreign Policy, Election 2016
Donald Trump has perfected the swagger and boast of a professional wrestler. While a guy like World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon is full of fake bluster and brashness for the sake of TV ratings, Donald Trump is the real McCoy: A reckless bully. That...
by Bill Scher | Aug 15, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Retirement Security
Eighty-one years ago Sunday, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act and created the one of the most enduring and consequential programs from the New Deal. This year, the program has a wonderful birthday present. Neither presidential candidate...
