Politics

It may not come as quickly as the left might like but slowly building power and creating momentum with bold policy ideas is the smartest way forward for the progressive left.

Demanding witnesses and evidence in Senate.

"The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the expression goes.

“This is not the end of our work. It is the beginning.”

The real nightmare is likely to emerge in 2020 or thereafter, if a far more capable politician than Trump embraces similar retrograde positions rides America B into Washington.

Despite what must have been a trying week, Sanders seems to have risen in the polls.

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and CEPR’s Dean Baker are just two of the highly respected individuals that have pledged their support.

That it’s being proposed by Republicans doesn’t make the idea any less worthy.

The best retort to an unqualified, unstable narcissist is dramatic contrast with a principled, grounded, selfless career professional like Sanders. Broadcast Trump's vanity worldview, glorifying his almighty cash nexus, against Sanders' steadfast life of public service -- in which honor and persistence reinforce moral intentions, fleshing in Bernie's idealistic pledges. The effective way to trump Trump is present a stable, moral choice opposite in every way to his surfeit of moneyed self-indulgence, life-long manias for fame, and incendiary fabrications.

“My first hope is that you will not be too discouraged by the way the world looks at this moment.”