Politics

Seven Republicans voted with Democrats to close the wage gap and amend the Equal Pay Act and Fair Labor Standards Act.

While he has his appeal, Beto O’Rourke seems to be more of the same kind of centrist that has dominated the Democratic Party since at least the 1980s.

Technology is bringing more accountable elections, but some activists disagree.

So bear with me here as I take us back almost four years to look once again at how it all began, at the way in which, after those 47 minutes, you could have turned off your TV, blocked out all those cable news talking heads, and never looked at the man again.

"This is about our lives, and this should not be partisan. Science should not be partisan."

The only true magic bullet in this case is the collective determination of all Americans who still believe in decency and democracy.

The Sanders campaign is a political opportunity unlike any we’ve seen in our lifetimes.

It is that he has sacrificed the processes and institutions of American democracy to achieve his goals.

After the arrest of an aide to Juan Guaido this week, revelations came about that the U.S. and Guaido were plotting a terror campaign against Venezuela, with mercenaries trained in Colombia from surrounding nations and funded by $1 billion in assets the U.S. seized from Venezuela.

Until reactionary Republican malfeasance is exposed and discredited, the USA will remain the most divided, globally dangerous and morally backward of affluent western nations.