by Burning Issues Video | May 11, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/OfM73I-dzRY[/fve] The next president should end the practice of recent presidents of using arms sales as an instrument of foreign policy, says William Hartung, director of the arms and security project at the Center for International Policy, in...
by Robert Borosage | May 11, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
West Virginia really likes Bernie Sanders. He swept the Democratic primary yesterday, winning 51.4 percent to Clinton’s 36 percent, even in the face of the mainstream media essentially declaring the race over. Speaking in Salem, Ore., Sanders described the key to his...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Health, Tax Reform
It's "Neoliberals Gang Up on Bernie Sanders Week" along the corridor of Washington establishment think-tanks that include the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute and a Brookings offspring, the Tax Policy Center. Out of this corridor came not one, but two...
by Terrance Heath | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
A week after Ted Cruz’s defended it in a failed attempt to boost his presidential bid, the battle over North Carolina’s anti-LGBT “bathroom bill” is exposing fissures in the conservative movement. Since North Carolina hastily passed HB 2, in reaction to the city of...
by Leo Gerard | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
On the fourth anniversary of the Korean trade deal, its lofty promises have been revealed as putrid pie in the sky: More jobs lost. No exports gained. Just like NAFTA, just like China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), free traders swore that the Korean...
by Bill Scher | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Donald Trump has a trick he likes to use when he wants to communicate two different messages to two different constituencies: incoherence. It doesn't take much to expose incoherence, yet it seems to flummox media headline writers who are itchy to summarize only one...
