After years of federal policy malpractice, the nation is eager for a fresh agenda for public schools. In picking Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona to be his nominee for U.S. secretary of education, President-elect ...
Much will certainly change in the world of U.S. foreign policy when Joe Biden enters the White House. There will be a more measured tone, and less reliance upon Twitter to announce U.S. policy. Trump ...
The Democratic Party avoided the issue of what to do about the gross maldistribution of power between the tiny few and the rest of the people in America. (Common Dreams) A national political nominating convention, ...
“The Democrats are trying to make this a referendum on Donald Trump, not his policies, not the issues, but on Donald Trump himself.” As a celebrity, President Donald Trump has been forced to endure critics ...
Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will not attend the Democratic convention in Wisconsin. Schools and work have turned to virtual settings during the COVID-19 pandemic, so it should come as no surprise ...
Democratic candidate Joe Biden revealed an aggressive green energy plan on Tuesday. While the package is designed to push America toward a 2035 carbon-free goal, the $2 trillion plan would also create new employment opportunities, ...
“It’s my greatest concern, my single greatest concern: This president is going to try to steal this election.” What keeps Joe Biden awake at night? As a presidential candidate, many matters could weigh heavy on ...
We need the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to be better than Trump. But we also need him to be better than himself. Dear Mr. Vice President Joe Biden, You showed up in public on Memorial ...
The silence from the media’s loudest #MeToo champions has been deafening. There has been exactly zero coverage of sexual allegations against Joe Biden on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC or CBS. Likewise, The New York Times ...
“Today I am suspending my campaign. But while the campaign ends, the struggle for justice continues on.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I–Vt., officially dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race on Wednesday. He shared the news ...
“For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real,” said Joe ...
“I’m dealing with a f***ing global crisis.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I–Vt., was uncharacteristically short when CNN Reporter Manu Raju grilled him on a timeline for folding his presidential race. The Democratic candidate now faces the ...
“If you are at higher risk for serious illness from COVID-19 because of your age or because you have a serious long-term health problem, it is extra important for you to take actions to reduce ...
The Democratic nomination has yet to be bestowed upon former Vice President Joe Biden, but his campaign is already adjusting course to take on President Donald Trump. The Democratic nomination has yet to be bestowed ...
“The establishment wing of the party didn’t fall into line behind Biden despite the fact that he’d put Bloomberg and Jamie Dimon in his cabinet. They did it because of that. This is who they ...
“I helped lead the opposition to these agreements, Joe Biden supported those agreements,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “And that is a fundamental difference about our approach toward the trade union movement and towards the needs ...
Trump defended his administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and spoke about the Democratic primary at his first town hall of the 2020 election. President Donald Trump held his first town hall of the 2020 ...
“People are tired of these kind of political investigations,” Romney said, “and would hope that if there is something of significance that needs to be evaluated, it would be done by perhaps the F.B.I. and ...
“At a certain point there needs to be a serious and empathetic conversation about Biden’s relatively frequent, confused, irritable inability to complete coherent thoughts. It’s not about a stutter. Watching him speak a mere four ...
“Biden received the most money in the Democratic field from insurance and pharmaceutical employees, while Sanders received the least. He kicked off his campaign with a fundraiser hosted by a health insurance executive, and one of ...
While Sen. Bernie Sanders laid claim to the big-delegate prize in California, former Vice President showed with multiple wins in key states that he is now the corporate Democrat’s only hope. “May the best candidate ...
“It is genuinely scandalous that the Iowa Democratic Party has only released 75% of the results to the caucus.” “This is scandalous.” “An utter trainwreck.” “The stuff of banana republics.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) ...
A sweeping new study of proposed single-payer healthcare plans over the last 30 years suggested a high probability of both short and long-term cost savings. A new study published January 15 by the journal PLOS ...
The impeachment inquiry into President Trump has spearheaded a call for unity within the Republican Party, raising the stakes for the upcoming presidential election. After seemingly surviving the Mueller investigation, it is now Ukraine that ...
Trump’s impeachment worries continue to unfold as a whistleblower complaint is made public and Trump reveals Vice President Mike Pence also had phone calls with Ukraine. On Thursday morning a whistleblower complaint which claims President ...
Wall Street will play big in the 2020 election, whether as a financial backer or as a topic of debate. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg have emerged as Wall Street donors’ clear favorites ...
The main part of our conversation with the Around The Nation host focused on Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), his top two choices for the Democratic nomination. The Democratic party has just begun ...
Joe Biden may not be the favorites of leading progressives but he still has a huge popularity rating and is working to amend past mistakes. Joe Biden entered the Democratic primary Thursday, leading the polls ...
Whatever your outlook on the days, weeks, and years to come, it’s worth looking back on the moments of the past 12 months and revisiting the themes they evoked. Without further ado, it’s time for… ...
Observers will point out this is a very early poll. For the sake of an example, Jeb Bush had a comfortable lead at this point in 2014—and we all know how that eventually turned out. Nevertheless, these ...
Joe Biden 2020, it could happen. Former Vice-president Joe Biden has said in private that he is seriously considering a 2020 Presidential run, according to an associated press report. Biden hosted a meeting recently with ...
Hill, who famously testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, said the former vice president and then-committee chair should have shown leadership but “did just the opposite”. (Common Dreams by ...