Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 2, 2018
Warren urges delay in confirmation vote for CFPB Director, new President of Mexico vows to ban fracking, Portland cracks down on fossil fuels, and more.
Citing ‘big mistakes’ made in Covid-19 fight, Khanna and Warren lead 130+ Dems calling...
“The current administration’s response has exposed serious flaws in the country’s ability to combat large scale public health challenges.”
Can we create a just America?
2020 has awakened the country to the full breadth of the injustices that have plagued us for centuries, and pushed us to the point where transformational change is the only path forward.
Bernie 2020 campaign has corporate Democrats running scared
We’re supposed to believe that candidates who’ve adjusted their sails to the latest political wind are just as good as the candidate who generated the wind in the first place.
Trump’s Tantrums: Tawdry Glitz for Hoodwinked Peanut Gallery
Though P.T. Barnum was as "self-absorbed and self-aggrandizing as Donald Trump," he was far less racists. Is this "palinesque loser" reviving the Gong Show?
The human costs of the nationalist agendas of Trump and Brexit
The nationalist approach to trade hurts globalists and workers alike.
Eric Trump claims Democrats are ‘not even people’
“You see the Democratic Party. They’re imploding. They’re imploding. They have no message. You see the head of the DNC, who is a total whack job."
Beyond ‘no’ and the limits of ‘yes’: A review of Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is...
No is not enough. But yes is not enough, either. Our fate lies in the joy and grief of maybe.
The Greatest Show on Earth
How Billions of Words, Tweets, Insults, and Polls Blot Out Reality in Campaign 2016
EPA reverses approval of poison traps used to kill wildlife
Last week, Trump’s EPA had made the decision to reauthorize the use of deadly cyanide traps to kill the wild animals that...