Omarosa Manigault Newman, the president’s former aide, claims there is a tape of him using the vile racial slur. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she “can’t guarantee” that a tape doesn’t exist. Trump tweeted, “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary.” The press pursued the question as if this would establish for one and for all whether Trump is a racist.
Today’s increasingly competitive global economy requires and recruits those who are highly-skilled and knowledgeable. People understand and accept that higher education is a means to become employable, marketable, and competitive.
A new generation of Democrats, such as New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is challenging the party’s establishment, writes Jesse Jackson, and the party’s goal should be to embrace the “moral center.” The media is now reporting on the debate among Democrats and activists about what the party should stand for, and how it will win elections. Establishment Democrats are said fear that the populist reform energy represented by Bernie Sanders and rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who upset Rep. Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, in a New York City primary) will turn off the moderate, upscale, White
The 2018 poll, conducted by Lake Research Partners and Chesapeake Beach Consulting, found that among respondents more than 90 percent viewed regulation of financial services to be very important, and registered support across partisan affiliations. Among Republicans, 85 percent supported regulation, compared to 92 percent of independents and 96 percent of Democrats.
Former President Barack Obama took to Twitter to rally the Democratic base and let the world know who he’s backing for the upcoming 2018 mid-term election, by tweeting his 81 candidates of choice. One candidate that failed to make the Obama cut was rising democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old socialist who by surprise defeated a 10-term Democratic congressmen in a New York primary earlier this year.
The Supreme Court struck a major blow to the power of public sector unions yesterday. In a 5-4 decision, the justices ruled that public sector unions could not collect dues from non-union members. Before the decision, workers who did not decide to join a union were still charged “agency fees” for services such as collective bargaining. (This describes the practice of large unions negotiating wages and benefits that affect all employees, regardless of their union membership.)
Trump uses immigration to rouse racial fear; immigrants “infest” our country, he charges.
Stop Hoping that the Republicans Will Get Sick of Trump. They Won’t.
The GOP has passed spending bills that actively take resources away from communities of color.
Donald Trump had the government shutdown that he wanted. No one should be confused about this. The shutdown allowed Trump and Republicans to ply their poisonous politics of division.
Conservatives’ claim that identity politics, as practiced by Blacks and other people of color is not the “American way” is both hypocritical and patently false.
David G. Brown Editorial Cartoon
The Republicans’ “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” will be devastating to California’s poor to middle-income families because they pay the highest income and sales taxes in the nation (in proportion to their income), the second highest gas tax, and their property tax assessments have doubled – and none of these will be deductible.
Their talk streamed live from the Advancement Project’s national office on Facebook July 18.
The health care repeal that Republicans are pushing through Congress is a direct attack on the lives of black people throughout the country.