by Martha Burk | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
We heard a lot about the “war on women” during the 2012 election cycle — mostly over Republican attacks on abortion rights and birth control. While the phrase has faded in this election year go-round, the war on women has not. The only change is that now we’re...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton – the two presumptuous if not yet presumptive leaders for their party’s presidential nomination – won big on Tuesday. Trump swept all five states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island) by double digits....
by Dave Johnson | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) went dormant in Congress after election season began. It became clear that the public despises our country's corporate-dominated "trade deals" that let companies just lay people off and close factories here to take advantage of...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, This Is The GOP
Alan White couldn’t shout jubilation from the rooftop on March 25 when he heard that the U.S. Department of Labor, after decades of trying, had finally issued a stricter rule to limit exposure to potentially deadly silica dust in workplaces. He was happy, all right....
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 26, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]ttps://youtu.be/tki-nuTUCko[/fve] Emira Woods, associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, says in this Burning Issues video that the next U.S. president needs to think of Africa differently and ally with the forces of change seeking to improve the...
by Bill Scher | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Ted Cruz and John Kasich had finally decided to join forces and work to prevent Donald Trump from reaching a majority of delegates before the convention. On Sunday evening, each campaign released a statement saying the two campaigns will strategically deploy resources...
