View image | gettyimages.com The National Rifle Association starts its annual convention today, and there will be plenty of time spent bashing both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, not least because the speakers include Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum, and […]
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The Remarkable Persistence of Crackpot Economics in the GOP
The most horrifying article you can read today is not about Ayatollah Khamenei’s troubling comments on the Iran nuclear deal, it’s this piece from Jim Tankersley of The Washington Post about how all the GOP presidential candidates are lining up to receive the wisdom of Arthur Laffer as they formulate their economic plans. This is […]
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Step One, Acknowledge Climate Change. Step Two, Recognize It’s Our Fault.
View image | gettyimages.com Posted by guest-blogger Amanda Teuscher The past couple weeks have been a bit of a mixed bag in the debate about climate change and environmental policy. On April 1, Governor Jerry Brown imposed water restrictions on California for the first time-a 25 percent usage reduction meant to alleviate the state’s historic […]
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The Inequality of Water
Posted by guest-blogger Sam Ross-Brown. Late last month, the City of Baltimore began notifying thousands of residents that their water may soon be shut off due to lack of payment. As Sarah Lazare reports for Common Dreams, residents owing more than $250 in payments going back at least six months were notified that they had […]
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Rand Paul’s Millennial Outreach, Now with Flip-Flops
Posted by guest-blogger Amanda Teuscher With the news that presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz’s affiliated super-PACs have raked in $31 million in less than a week, it looks like Senator Rand Paul is going to have to sell a lot of beer koozies. Paul, who announced his candidacy on Tuesday, is already facing skepticism from […]
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North Charleston Murder Stems from American Tradition
Posted by guest-blogger Adele M. Stan An unarmed man shot in the back. An innocent man released after serving 30 years on death row. The centennial of Billie Holiday’s birth. These are the stories that emanated from my radio yesterday, and all bear a common thread: the devaluing of black life. The biggest news, of […]
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A Reminder About Netanyahu, Iraq, and Iran
View image | gettyimages.com Just a few weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked like a figure with huge influence in American politics. There he was addressing Congress, with Republicans practically carrying him into the House chamber on their shoulders. He was on every American television show he wanted, delivering his dark warnings of […]
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Why Republicans Won’t Convince the Electorate That Hillary Clinton Is a Radical
View image | gettyimages.com One of the persistent conservative narratives about Hillary Clinton is that her identity as a supposedly moderate Democrat is a ruse, meant to conceal her radical leftist intents. If and when she reaches her long-held goal of becoming president, the mask will be removed and the true horror of her socialist […]
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Photo of the Day, Their Elections Are As Dumb As Ours Edition
View image | gettyimages.com That’s prime minister David Cameron, campaigning ahead of the May 7 elections in Great Britain. You see, the little lamb represents the hopes and dreams of every Briton, to whom Cameron’s Conservative Party will gently feed the nourishing milk of prudent fiscal and monetary policy, so it can grow up big […]
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Rand Paul—and Every Other Candidate—to Run Against Washington
View image | gettyimages.com You know what America needs? A candidate who will change the way they do business in Washington, bring an outsider’s perspective, stand up to all those politicians, and make Washington work for America and not the other way around! I know we need that, because that’s what Barack Obama told us […]
