August 2, 2016 – It was just a few months ago that America watched Flint unpack boxes of bottled water in the midst of battle against lead contamination in its municipal water supply. Arrests followed, since reckless managers put lives at risk, particularly children who drank contaminated water. We’ve known for thousands of years that […]
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American Immigration Council: Humayun Khan and America’s Debt to Foreign-Born Service Members
August 2, 2016 – Khizr and Ghazala Khan appeared at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week to honor their son Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004 while serving in the U.S. Army. The controversy that followed could not have been predicted with the Republican candidate attacking the Khan’s who […]
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Frank Sharry: To Donald Trump and GOP Enablers: Have You No Sense of Decency?
Aug. 1, 2016 – Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks against the Khan family are the latest, and perhaps most heartless, example of his campaign’s sustained attempt to stoke racial and religious animosity. Trump is, quite simply, running a campaign that is antithetical to who we are as a country. Meanwhile, in sharp contrast, the Khan family […]
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Matt Hildreth: If You Care About Immigrants in America Watch These Speeches from the Democratic National Convention
July 29, 2016 – During the last two weeks, two starkly different visions of America were on display at the Republican and Democratic conventions. While Donald Trump and Republicans up and down the ballot continued to attack and demean Latinos and immigrants, immigration policy reforms were featured as a top priority for Democrats. These are our […]
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Kae Reynolds: Clinton finds her voice – but the sexism that greets women’s speech endures
July 29, 2016 – After a campaign lasting more than a year and taking in all 50 states, Hillary Rodham Clinton has delivered a speech that will go down in history. As the first woman to secure a major party’s nomination for president of the United States, her address to the Democratic National Convention was […]
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John Baick: A Lack of Plain Old Good Etiquette Is Undermining Our Democracy
July 24, 2016 – John Baick is a professor of history at Western New England University in Springfield, Mass. The tone and volume of our political culture discourse give Americans insight into the norms of our society, a reflection of our times. If one were to put up a mirror to our political landscape today, […]