by Terrance Heath | Jun 17, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
After threatening to run for years, real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his candidacy for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. For real, this time. For years, Donald Trump has been one of the most famous non-candidates for...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 16, 2015 | Current Issues, Populism2015, Populist Majority
In the early stages of any presidential campaign, the race for money is accompanied by an “ideas primary” as candidates begin to frame the purpose and platform of their campaigns. What’s striking about the salad days of the 2016 race is that populism is leading the...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Something unusual happened Friday. Regular Americans were able to beat Wall Street and the giant corporations in Congress, winning a battle over "fast tracking" so-called "trade" agreements. This sort of thing just doesn't happen very often, but it has been happening...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 15, 2015 | Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
Finally declaring his candidacy for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination may be Jeb Bush’s last, best hope of turning around his lackluster campaign. In the weeks before announcing his candidacy, Bush seemed to stumble from misstep to misstep. For a while there,...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 15, 2015 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Twenty-eight Democrats on Friday sided with Wall Street and the big multinational corporations against 99 percent of Americans. They voted to pass fast-track trade promotion authority, which preapproves the still-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and future...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 12, 2015 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
You did it. Despite furious lobbying by the Fortune 500, entreaties from the Republican leadership in Congress and personal, last-minute appeals from President Obama, fast-track trade authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been thrown off-track. A sweeping...
