by Robert Borosage | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Seven contenders lined up in the main Republican debate Thursday night in Charleston, South Carolina. Donald Trump, still leading in national polls, may not have won the night, but he has surely dictated its terms. The candidates were trumped-up, the vitriol hot, the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 14, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
A new, deeply researched book to be published next month takes direct aim at much of the Democratic and progressive establishment, asserting that it is missing opportunities to build a durable political majority by not being fully engaged with the people of color at...
by Michael Winship | Jan 14, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
On May 21, 1946, less than a year after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, physicist Louis Slotin performed a dangerous experiment his colleagues at Los Alamos called “tickling the dragon’s tail.” He took two half-spheres of beryllium, each...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Crybabies. That’s the perfect word to describe conservatives' reaction to President Obama’s final State of the Union address — as well as the official GOP response by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. It started even before the president even delivered his address....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 12, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tuesday won the endorsement of MoveOn.org Political Action, in what executive director Ilya Sherman described as a "record setting 78.6 percent" of the vote over challenger Hillary Clinton. In an email to supporters,...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama gives his last State of the Union speech tonight. Will he provide a positive, progressive message for the future, or will he continue to push the wildly unpopular, corporate/Wall Street-written Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? TPP Unpopular Last week...
