by Terrance Heath | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In his poem, “For My Own Protection,” the late black, gay poet Essex Hemphill wrote: I want to start an organization to save my life. If whales, snails, dogs, cats Chrysler and Nixon can be saved, the lives of Black men are priceless and can be saved. We should be...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign operation has been anything but subtle in suggesting that now that her win in the New York primary Tuesday has made her nomination at the Democratic convention pretty much inevitable, it’s time for the Bernie Sanders campaign to...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Clinton’s heated defense of the money she has raised from Wall Street and other interests won’t cut it. Her protests contradict the basic case that virtually all Democrats and reformers have made for getting big money out of politics. It is vital that voters...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
On Tuesday night, our neighborhood in Montgomery County, Md., had no water. It had been temporarily turned off between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, as workers worked to replace the decades-old water mains that run beneath the busy...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
There’s no place like home. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won big last night in their home state of New York. Trump won 60.5 percent of the vote and 88 delegates, with John Kasich a distant second and New Yorkers giving Ted Cruz a good taste of their values – and a...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade
The Bush administration negotiated the Panama free trade agreement without addressing Panama's bank and corporate secrecy. Panama has little to "trade" with the U.S., so maybe leaving secrecy out of the agreement wasn't an accident; it was the point. It provided a...
