by Dave Johnson | Jun 15, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
There is a clause in many "free-trade" agreements allowing corporations to sue governments in corporate courts for passing laws, regulating and other things that might limit their profits. Never mind if the people of a country want to do something to make their own...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum when labeled a small-hands man because he believes everything about him is huge: big wealth, big wall, big mouth. There's some evidence he thinks expansively about business because he built a billion-dollar empire out of what he...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Election 2016
Donald Trump touts his business "success" as a major qualification for running the country. So how does Trump run his businesses and what does this mean for the country? And what about this idea that government should be run like a business, anyway? The Republican...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 13, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Let's hope that a story published by Politico on Monday about the kind of campaigns Democrats plan to run to retake the Senate proves inaccurate. "Democrats' surprising strategy to win the Senate: Be boring," is the headline for the story, which describes the overall...
by Robert Reich | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
[fve]https://youtu.be/r1tSgUtBfOc[/fve] The Republican Party still has time to change its mind. Right now it’s supporting for President of the United States a man 1. who divides us by race and ethnicity and religion. He says undocumented Americans “bring drugs,...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
My phone started buzzing almost as soon as the lights went down. I was in Baltimore with my family to watch Cirque du Soleil’s “Toruk” when the alerts started coming in about another mass shooting, this time at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We’d just found our...
