Republican politicians are rarely shy about expressing some hatred of the government, and Mia Love is no exception.
Immigration
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CPAC 2015: Right-Wing American Dream Kind of Crappy
Posted by guest blogger Nathalie Baptiste. What is the American dream? Is it owning a house and having a job you love? Perhaps you want to be able to have children and send them off to school? Well, this year at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, members of the Republican Party are promising to […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Workers Centers: Organizing the ‘Unorganizable’
From contract janitorial workers to day laborers, new strategies emerge for seeking justice on the job.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Photo of the Day, Presidential Schmoozing Edition
View image | gettyimages.com President Obama meets with some “Dreamers” who have benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. You know, just some folks sitting around, having a casual conversation.
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Why Fictional “No-Go Zones” Could Be the 2016 Campaign’s Next Culture War
Have you heard about the “no-go zones”? If not, just ask the uncle you dread seeing at Thanksgiving; by now he’s already gotten a dozen chain e-mails about them. Despite having been widely debunked, this little nugget of misinformation is showing remarkable resilience. In and of itself that’s nothing new; one poll earlier this month […]
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A Republican Sister Souljah Fantasy
This weekend, no fewer than eight potential Republican presidential candidates, along with some party media stars like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and Donald Trump, will head to Des Moines for the Iowa Freedom Summit, an event organized by anti-immigrant nincompoop and member of the U.S. House of Representatives Steve King. In my Plum Line Post […]
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Labor at a Crossroads: Will Diversity Foster a New Solidarity and Save the Movement?
The determination to represent the entire working class is the best chance labor has had in over 40 years to put the “labor question” before the nation again.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can Moral Mondays Produce Victorious Tuesdays?
North Carolina’s protest movement has galvanized the state’s progressives, but couldn’t stop 2014’s Republican tide. Its leaders say they’re only just beginning.
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GOP Tees Up Another Humiliating Defeat On Immigration
Later on today, the House of Representatives is expected to pass a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security and also reversing President Obama’s executive actions temporarily exempting certain undocumented immigrants from deportation. We’ve been on this merry-go-round before, and here’s what’s so remarkable about this: Republicans still believe, even after all this time, that […]
Posted inAmerica and the World
Harrowing Tales of the Wrongly Deported: U.S. Border Patrol Flouts the Law and Destroys Lives
There are more than 40,000 CBP officers authorized to act like judges but without legal training. The new executive order does not change this.
