With less than a month to go before the midterm elections, and control of the Senate on the line, at long last, Republicans think they’ve found a winning strategy—scare the living shit out of (white) voters. It’s an oldie but goodie. Their message is simple: If Ebola (species Kenya Obamavirus) doesn’t kill you, then ISIS and […]

What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … The great Republican tax cut scam of 2015, by Jon Perr Book review: ‘Latino America’ by Matt Barreto and Gary M. Segura, by Susan Grigsby Sane approaches to health epidemics. Medical anthropologists address ebola fearmongering, by Denise Oliver Velez Can California Democrats save their supermajorities? A look at […]

Staff at Appalachian Bear Rescue release a bear back into the wild. Many environmentally related posts appearing at Daily Kos each week don’t attract the attention they deserve. To help get more eyeballs, Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The […]

Move over Benghazi, IRS, Fast & Furious, and Bill Ayers, because Ebola has arrived on the right: The Ebola virus, which killed a patient at a Dallas hospital Wednesday, has become part of the conversation among politicians and pundits — in particular, conservative politicians and pundits. The virus has added heat to conversations about immigration […]

As the march for justice was just beginning in downtown St. Louis, photojournalist Koran Addo took what may be the most powerful image of the entire #FergusonOctober weekend. About a block ahead of the crowd, young Nigel, doing what young boys do, darted across the street when his mother and grandmother yelled at him to […]

Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) The move by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission—an instrument of state control over the city’s schools, with a majority of board members appointed by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett—to cut health care for teachers and suspend their contract could further hurt the city’s desperately underfunded, suffering schools, Daniel Denvir writes. Philadelphia teachers […]

Today’s source material: I know what you’re thinking. It’s “who gives a shit?”, right? Appearing on the American Family Association’s radio show this week, Huckabee was discussing gay marriage and said: “If the Republicans want to lose guys like me — and a whole bunch of still God-fearing Bible-believing people — go ahead and just […]

Lewis Black Says f#%! voter suppression at a photo shoot with ACLU’s Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho. See the video below. This week in the war on voting is a joint project of Joan McCarter and Meteor Blades. It’s been a big week for court rulings on state voting laws, with two victories and […]

Just as states with progressive lawmakers and activists have themselves initiated innovative programs over a wide range of issues, state-based progressive blogs have helped provide us with a point of view, inside information and often an edgy voice that we just don’t get from the traditional media. This week in progressive state blogs is designed […]