August 30, 2020
The pandemic, street protests, Russian meddling, election security?
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August 29, 2020Rick Perlstein has been studying the Republican Party for decades. He has written a four-volume series on the rise of the modern conservative movement: Before the Storm, Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge, and most recently, Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980. Perlstein joined Amy Goodman on Democracy Now to comment on President’s acceptance of the nomination. Continue reading
August 28, 2020While the Democratic Party platform has been criticized for not being bold enough, Republicans have been harshly panned for having “absolutely no plan to deal with the climate crisis.” Continue reading
August 28, 2020The White House, the people’s house, was turned into the background for a political rally, emblazoned with flags and sporting jumbotrons that spelled out “Trump/Pence.” Continue reading
August 28, 2020Please don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
August 27, 2020Rose Schneiderman, Clara Lemlich, and Leonora O’Reilly are not household names like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but these working-class suffragists were indispensable to winning women’s right to vote in New York state in 1917. Continue reading
August 27, 2020During her speech at the Republican National Convention, Lara Trump declared that Abraham Lincoln “once famously said, ‘America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.’” No, he … Continue reading
August 27, 2020Natural, social and political turmoil at record levels
August 26, 2020The Hatch Act has no authority according to this administration
August 26, 2020One hundred years ago this month, the 19th Amendment was ratified. But American women’s battle for the ballot and representation in government began long before that day in August — and continues, even to this day.
