by Burning Issues Video | Apr 14, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Financial Reform
[fve]https://youtu.be/-gAE5NIft40[/fve] There is as much as $27 trillion hidden in shell companies around the world, outside of the reach of governments and public scrutiny, according to Porter McConnell, the director of the Financial Transparency Coalition. That has...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 14, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Jobs and Growth
Thursday night is a big night for both political parties in New York City, with the Democratic presidential candidates staging a presidential debate in Brooklyn and the Republican candidates appearing at a black-tie fundraiser at the New York Hilton. But before they...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 13, 2016 | Democracy, Election 2016
Those of us who have been concerned about Republican voter suppression tactics expected this might happen: A relative of a Republican political candidate complaining about "onerous rules" that got in the way of casting a vote. By now, you've probably seen or read the...
by Michael Winship | Apr 13, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
You might wonder what the connection is between a friendly game of golf last summer in Martha’s Vineyard and the Panama Papers. Read on. As anyone who hasn’t been in a cave – or otherwise away from the Internet -- knows, last week the German newspaper Süddeutsche...
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 13, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/FkVh3IlnMTU[/fve] The U.S. has "become, in essence, the new Rome," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George W. Bush administration, in this Burning Issues video segment. Wilkerson, who...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich says he wouldn’t have signed North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT law. That still doesn’t make him the moderate he wants people to think he is. Kasich said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he...
