Spin Shift on Bernie: The Escalating Media Assault
Donald Trump is to Bernie Sanders as Archie Bunker is to Jon Stewart.
Can we still find common ground?
Without a shared sense of common good, there can be no “we” to begin with.
12 notes from a political autopsy
The left and the party faithful may be angry at each other, but they’re on the same side now, locked together in a nonviolent political movement to resist Trumpism and remake American politics.
The three big reasons Republicans can’t replace Obamacare
Except the prospect of more than 20 million people losing their health insurance, and a huge redistribution from the working class to the very rich.
Country Music, Tea Party ‘Populism,’ and Ted Cruz
The billionaire-backed funding for Ted Cruz comes from those the billionaire-backed groups and individuals that oppose raising the minimum wage, or even the existence of a minimum wage, want to gut Medicare, Social Security and unemployment benefits, and want to reduce their own taxes even more.
Trump’s escalating assault on the press
Will news organizations be intimidated?
Response to Nation article on single payer: Improved medicare for all is the solution
Throughout time, every great social movement has been told that it was asking for too much.
The meaning of America
We are forgetting the real meaning of America – the ideals on which our nation was built. We are losing our sense of the common good.
A time for integrity
You have not pledged yours souls to the Republican Party. You have pledged yourselves to America. Now is the time to deliver on that pledge.
Exit polls vs machine counts or, how you might rig a primary
These kinds of large disparities between the exit polls and the machine counts might be dismissed as an anomaly but so many cases in so many states should probably have raised alarm bells.