Politics

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders performs a sketch alongside Colbert and talks delegate math.

Weakening America’s alliances, the likely result of Trump’s policies, is hardly the way to “make America great again.”

How to pay for a solution? A financial speculation tax on the rich and, for the poor, a tradeoff of safety net benefits for the security of a guaranteed income.

Trump's wild-eyed ideas about the national debt seem to be based on a gut feeling rather than reality.

Yet another triumph of “humanitarian intervention,” and, as the long and often ghastly record reveals, not an unusual one, going back to its modern origins four centuries ago.

The Maine Democratic Party just eliminated the superdelegate.

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.

The Labour Party’s Sadiq Khan has just become London’s first Muslim mayor.

In order to actually exercise democracy at this summer’s Democratic National Convention, Sanders has called on Schultz to stop stacking the deck in Clinton’s favor.

A new word has been coined to explain the difficulties facing working people in our time, “precariat.”