by Robert Borosage | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Populism2015, Progressive Vision
When Hillary Clinton expressed doubts about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and then issued a call for new Wall Street reforms, reporters suggested she was trying to mute her differences with Bernie Sanders in the run-up to the first Democratic presidential...
by Bernie Horn | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog, Populist Majority
In response to the massacre at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, President Obama said: This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved...
by Bill Scher | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog
With yet another mass shooting terrorizing the American public, some facts are in order. * Mass shootings in public places are on the rise in America over the past few years, but they still represent an infinitesimal amount -- less than one percent -- of the 33,000...
by Bernie Horn | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
Recently, The New York Times published a front-page story headlined “Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many U.S. Cities.” Much of the media have run similar reports, including USA Today, Reuters and Time. First we must consider whether the storyline is entirely true....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 10, 2015 | Conservatism, Tax Reform
Voodoo economics are back with a vengeance. It was George Bush the elder who coined the term as a slander against Ronald Reagan's economic policies, but his son George W. Bush embraced the mysticism of tax cuts that magically increase economic growth and increase...
