by Burning Issues Video | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Climate, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/H_vVwcEw8gQ[/fve] Jason Kowalski, U.S. policy director for 350.org, the global, grassroots organization battling climate change, explains in this Burning Issues video how climate change has become a national security issue. As the Republican...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 8, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week the South rose again and tried to go back in time about 50 year, as several former confederate states tried to legislate a queer new twist on Jim Crow; so much for southern hospitality. Once again, a toxic blend of religion and bigotry takes hold below the...
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 8, 2016 | Burning Issues, Economy
[fve]https://youtu.be/DUFYsPCKbb4[/fve] Josh Bivens, director of research and policy at the Economic Policy Institute, assesses in this Burning Issues video segment whether the United States is ready for the next global economic slowdown. The United States is among...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Tax Reform
It's no surprise that the chairman of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, would use The Washington Post's editorial page to defend himself and his company from an attack from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who told the New York Daily News editorial...
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 7, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/CK7V3wW4OR8[/fve] While most of the presidential candidates compete to present themselves as the toughest on terrorism and the threat from ISIS, Paul Pillar, a former U.S. intelligence official and author who now writes at The National Interest,...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
It sounds like a match between a second-rate comic book hero-and-villain pair: the Golden Boy vs. the Orange Man. Thus it’s fitting in more ways than one that former House Speaker (and first “orange” speaker) John Boehner perhaps started the ball rolling. At a Futures...
