by Bill Scher | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
There are substantive differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Single-payer vs. individual mandate. Break up the big banks vs. regulate the big banks. Tuition-free college vs. debt-free college. "Leave it in the ground" vs. a more gradual shift away...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 27, 2016 | Progressive Vision
Is Barack Obama a transformational president? That was his ambition: to be more, as he put it, like Ronald Reagan than Bill Clinton, to launch a new era, not simply tack to the prevailing winds of the old. Not surprisingly, in his final year in office, the issue is...
by Robert Reich | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
Not a day passes that I don’t get a call from the media asking me to compare Bernie Sanders’s and Hillary Clinton’s tax plans, or bank plans, or health-care plans. I don’t mind. I’ve been teaching public policy for much of the last thirty-five years. I’m a policy...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 26, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
For those who have been closely watching the Democratic presidential contest between Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders, Tuesday night's Iowa town hall discussion on CNN did not reveal anything dramatically new about the candidates. But it perhaps...
by Jim Hightower | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
The problem with applying conventional wisdom to political campaigns is that it can suddenly be upended by an unconventional campaign. National media pundits have been riveted by Donald Trump’s flagrantly narcissistic run for the Republican presidential nomination....
by Gloria Totten | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Gender Justice, Progressive Vision
The battle over abortion rights legislation is being fought almost entirely at the state level, with skirmishes in localities. This will most likely continue to be true for years to come. The anti-abortion forces understand this dynamic, have focused their resources...
