Republican Party

By Phyllis Bennis and Kevin Martin | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Lawmakers need to hear from their constituents who support diplomacy over war. Members of Congress are fleeing Washington’s steam bath for their August recess, making this a key time for constituents to raise their voices on crucial issues. Right now, the […]

Banking

Game of Groans: How focus on Trump Taunts hides GOP war on Middle Class, Workers

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The condition of late capitalism produces a press discourse strangely devoid of any mention of class. Last Thursday we had 10 rich males, all but one white, on a debate stage seeking to represent the billionaire class (some 536 individuals in US, who have more wealth […]

Bernie Sanders

And the Winner of the Fox News GOP Presidential Debate?… Bernie Sanders

contributors

By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Sen. Bernie Sanders took on the entire top-tier of the GOP field from his Twitter account on Thursday night… and for many, he won the debate hands down. (Photo: CD Collage / Fox News / @BernieSanders) As Fox News hosted the first full debate […]

Barack Obama

Can Obama’s CO2 reductions set pace at Paris world Climate Congress?

contributors

By Nora Happel | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – This week, U.S. President Barack Obama formally unveiled the details of his Clean Power Plan (CPP), a comprehensive carbon-cutting strategy he described as “the biggest and most important step…ever taken to combat climate change” in a prior video address posted on […]

Bill of Rights

Top Cringe Worthy Foreign Policy Moments in GOP Debate

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Well we had the primetime GOP debate, so the 2016 election season has formally begun. Trump declared himself more or less an independent. When Megyn Kelly pressed him on his history of misogyny and putting down women, he threatened not to be nice to her any […]

Climate Change

Deep South, biggest Climate Deniers, will be among worst hit by Global Warming

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Tan Copsy | ( Risky Business) | – – Atlanta, Georgia – The Southeastern United States and Texas are uniquely at risk from climate change, according to a new report by the Risky Business Project – a non-partisan initiative chaired by Hank Paulson, Michael R. Bloomberg, and Tom Steyer. The report finds that across the […]

Campaign Finance

Could Scott Walker’s Legal Victory Expand PAC Superpowers?

contributors

By Robert Faturechi | (ProPublica) – – A Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling on Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign practices clears the way for state candidates to work more closely with legally independent political groups and their enormous war chests. The big unanswered question is how ripples from the case might spread beyond the state’s borders. The […]

Featured

How Likely are the GOP Presidential Candidates Top 10 to drag us into War?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Fox Cable News announced its pick for the 10 Republican presidential candidates it will allow in its Thursday debate. These are candidates who are getting at least 3% support in a basket of opinion polls, including one commissioned by Fox itself. CNN will follow a similar […]

Barack Obama

Top 5 Ways Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Politics led to Sanders & Trump

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole – (Informed Comment) – It is said that one of the things President Obama wanted to talk to comedian Jon Stewart about was his occasional cynicism. “Obama scolded him for turning young Americans cynical.” But the approach to politics taken by Obama until recently — of promising genuine change but governing as […]