Bernie Hopes Trump Will Not ‘Chicken Out’ of Presidential Debate
“I’d love to debate Bernie. He’s a dream.”
Graduating students boo Betsy DeVos during commencement speech
“For someone to come and speak at my commencement that cannot relate to me or know what I have been through is kind of like a slap in the face.”
DeVos budget robs from poor kids to fund schools that discriminate
What Trump and DeVos are proposing in this budget is not only to take resources away from students, but to turn around and give more money to schools that would potentially discriminate against them.
It’s a scam
The irony is obvious - taking money from the taxpaying public to destroy a vital public institution that, unlike charter schools, must take all comers.
Why Bernie Needs To Take Satan’s Advice & Create An Un-Christian Coalition
In this week’s Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Election Crimes Bulletin, Dennis J. Bernstein and Greg Palast explain how Bernie can take a tip from Satan’s playbook and seize this moment to create one hell of a powerful a movement!
Behind the media surge against Bernie Sanders
Like it or not, the battle over the future of the Democratic Party – including what kind of presidential nominee the party should have in 2020 – is already underway.
American Greed: Trump’s Economic Team Is a Who’s Who of What’s Wrong
The America Trump describes is a dark dystopia, competitive and divided and brutal. Now he’s assembled a team that could make that nightmare a reality.
A Republican tried to introduce a commonsense gun law. Then the gun lobby got...
After a sheriff’s deputy was murdered in a Denver suburb, Colorado state Rep. Cole Wist took action by sponsoring a red flag bill. It likely cost him his seat. ProPublica spoke to Wist about the harsh realities of gun reform.
Matt Lauer Ignores Trump’s Lies
NBC host didn’t challenge Trump’s false claims about Iraq and Libya.
MoveOn’s phony new campaign for ‘protecting whistleblowers’
Despite its assertion that “protecting whistleblowers is critical for a healthy democracy,” MoveOn is now splitting donations with an organization that supports the absence of legal protections for many of them.