Tag: Republican National Convention
What the fact?! Reacting to the RNC
Robert Reich reacts to the most outrageous whoppers and provided some fact-based rebuttals.
RNC opens with baseless Trump claims of rigged election & warnings...
The Republican Party has decided not to adopt a new platform this year, a move that ensures there will be no public debate at the convention about the direction of the party under Trump.
Exclusive: Lizz Winstead and Abortion Stories in the Public Square
Lady Parts Justice League protested outside the Republican National Convention to raise awareness for pro-choice activism.
At the GOP Convention, the Media Went AWOL
Almost no one in the press even acknowledged that regardless of how you feel about Donald Trump, the spectacle was crazy.
A Sad Showing for the Left in Cleveland
Real change happens on the ground, so where were all the protestors in Cleveland?
What’s on Display in Cleveland? The Republican Id
The triumph of Trump has demonstrated the cost of the devil’s bargain that party elites — and the media — have accepted over the years.
GOP Holds Convention In Ground Zero For Voting Rights, As Party...
The controversial voting restrictions could decide this November's election.
Republicans Want To “Make America Work Again”? That Would Be Real...
Republicans, if you want to really 'Make America Work Again': Make U.S. corporations pay the $700 billion they owe in taxes on their $2.4 trillion in profits stashed offshore.
Terror, Tennis Balls and Tamir Rice
Fatal inequality will continue to terrorize this nation until we genuinely commit to confronting racism and gun violence.
Cruz Decided To Address The RNC But Not Endorse Trump. It...
Boos rained down at the Republican National Convention yesterday. What was Ted Cruz thinking?
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Garbage in, garbage CEO windfalls out
‘Waste management’ won’t help us confront climate change so long as corporate self-interest rules.
The crowning fiasco: even the king looked embarrassed
The discussion around the British monarchy, which is starting to ignite and will grow and deepen, needs to take in the wider issue of wealth and income inequality and the poisonous economic system that fuels it.
‘Enormous policy failure’: states throw hundreds of thousands—including many children—off Medicaid
"We knew this was coming," wrote one policy expert. "But we still treat these burdens like they're unavoidable natural disasters."
Supreme Court ruling against EPA ‘undoes a half-century of progress’ in protecting waters of...
"It puts our Nation’s wetlands – rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds connected to them – at risk of pollution and destruction, jeopardizing the sources of clean water that millions of American families, farmers, and businesses rely on."
If pushing pardons for savage Jan. 6 seditionists isn’t unpardonable, what is?
Abusive pardons of the most serious crimes represent the great terrorist threat to self-government.