by Richard Eskow | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders’ "political revolution" scored some impressive wins this weekend at the Democratic Party Platform Committee meeting in Orlando, adding to its victories last month in St. Louis. ABC News called the resulting document “exceptionally progressive.”...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Three shootings made national news this week. Most Americans were outraged by all three. However, conservatives were outraged by one, and silent about the other two. For the third time this week, Americans awoke Friday to news of yet another shooting. Still reeling...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Education, Election 2016
Although education policy has not been a prominent issue in the current presidential race, the Democratic Party's platform gives the subject some of its just due with a fairly extensive treatment. In the current draft, which will be finalized on June 8 and 9, there...
by Burning Issues Video | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/RkpWT2vqykU[/fve] The United States' interventions in the Middle East over the past decades have been a clear failure by any measure, says Andrew Bacevich, an author on military matters and a retired Boston University history professor, in this...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Financial Reform
Here’s a sentence from the Democratic Party’s recently released draft platform: “We will reform the Federal Reserve so that it is more representative of America as a whole, and we will fight to make sure that executives at financial institutions are not allowed to...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 7, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/YmLHwZkonwY[/fve]Video: Sen. Elizabeth Warren on why we need to stop the TPP. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is likely to come up for a vote in the "lame-duck" session of Congress that follows the November presidential election. Will the...
