Politics

Genuinely progressive candidates can inspire and galvanize -- and sometimes they can even win. But election campaigns, especially national ones, are almost always boom/bust.

“There’s no reason why state legislators should get a pass, simply because we wear suits.”

Kevin Cooper might face execution next week even though he is said to be innocent.

One of the many anti-democratic oddities of the Iowa caucuses.

The “virtual tie” between Sanders and Clinton was the result of several coin tosses when 6 precincts came to a tie. So what's next for the Sanders campaign?

In short, “the real world we’re living in” right now won’t allow fundamental change of the sort we need. It takes a movement.

Can Hillary Clinton accomplish the inconceivable: uniting the long-divided political Left--in opposition? Part 1 of 2

If we continue to ignore the hunger, poverty and desperate families and communities of our young, we guarantee there will be a huge, violent population plagued by crime, drug addiction and high incarceration rates. If we save the children, we save society.

There seems to be no amount of human suffering and destruction that can’t be excused when undertaken by western countries who are always deemed to have good intentions, while those opposed to them are tarred as savages at best and pure evil at worst.

Rally turnout for Bernie Sanders over the weekend knocked Clinton's out of the park.