by Terrance Heath | Jul 27, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
The stakes were high for the speech by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to the national gathering of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Saturday night. Sanders’ speech to the civil rights organization, whose first president was Rev....
by Joshua Ferrer | Jul 24, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Progressive Vision
After over two months as an announced presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) has for the first time come out for substantive sentencing reforms. In an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday, Sanders said “We need to take a look at mandatory minimum sentences,...
by Digby | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
As I have written several thousand times, Americans, especially black Americans, cannot assume they have rights or live in a free country when they are dealing with the police. It is no longer up to police to be professional and calm, it is the citizens' job to...
by Robert Reich | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
A new report finds more U.S. children living in poverty than before the Great Recession. According to the report, released Tuesday from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 22 percent of American children are living in poverty (as of 2013, the latest data available)...
by Bill Scher | Jul 15, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Click here to sign our petition and tell Congress: No war with Iran. As Donald Rumsfeld might say, you can't start a war with the Republican Party you wish to have. Republicans in Congress may want to stop the international nuclear deal with Iran. They may prefer to...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 14, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Campaign aides billed Hillary Clinton’s economic address as a demonstration of her populist commitments. And as she trudged through her text, she assiduously touched virtually every base in the progressive economic agenda. Invest in infrastructure, check. Raise the...
