by Terrance Heath | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump’s response to a well deserved rebuke form the parents of a Muslim-American war hero should lead Republicans to ask whether their candidate has, at long last, no sense of decency. It was a moment that shook the Democratic convention. With his wife Ghazala...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Clinton offered a strong economic platform at last week’s Democratic National Convention. She promised to boost employment and wages with large-scale investments in infrastructure and green jobs. She declared her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
While Hillary Clinton was shattering that glass ceiling, Donald Trump pulled off a first of his own: the first presidential candidate to invite a cyber attack against the United States. This presidential election long ago entered the realm of “You Just Can’t Make This...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/gARt1GGM7d4[/fve] When Rev. William Barber, best known in progressive circles as the leader of the Moral Mondays protests against the right-wing governor and legislature in North Carolina, was brought to the stage at the Democratic National...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday night confidently accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party to be president of the United States. This was history. Our money-laden, poll-driven politics is a tawdry business. The Clintons are burdened by a lot of history on...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Donald Trump seriously thinks he can woo LGBT voters with empty rhetoric about “protecting” us from terrorist attacks. But who’s going to protect us from his religious extremist friends, and his party’s anti-LGBT platform? Last week,in his acceptance speech at the...
