by Terrance Heath | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, This Is The GOP
On Tuesday night, 15.3 million people tuned in to a sane, rational Democratic presidential debate. Nobody remembered to bring the crazy to the Dem’s debate. So, wingnuts brought enough for everybody. It’s hard to choose the most egregious of the right-wing responses...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
One of the most striking contrasts between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in the first Democratic debate is their starkly different theories of how change will take place. Yet it is this difference that is at the center of the Sanders surge, and particularly of...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The Democratic presidential debate between Lincoln Chafee, Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, and Jim Webb was barely over before the usual post-debate debate over who “won” began. There’s a case to be made that the real winners of the Democratic debate were the...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is complete, but we still are not allowed to know what is in it. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has called on the President to release the text of TPP to the public. The Hill has the story, in "Trumka calls for immediate...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement is shopping around to professors, trying to get them to help "expand the conversation" around the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with the public – even though TPP is...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016
Unless you listened carefully, you might have missed the expanse of daylight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders when asked about their plans for Social Security at the CNN Democratic debate Tuesday. It's a gap that is alarming people who are fighting to...
