Tag: Election 2016
Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation
Protesters, especially students, are marching in solidarity to protest the recent election of Donald Trump as our next POTUS.
Bernie Sanders responds to Trump’s victory
When it comes to the policies that Trump has hinted at that would be “racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environmental,” Sanders vows to “vigorously oppose him.”
It can’t happen here (but it just did)
Now we all stand on the precipice — of aggressive nationalism, of ugly prejudice, of climate change, of despair.
Trump’s presidency, the demise of the major parties, and the need...
It’s on all of us on the left, and in the rest of the Democratic base to pick up the pieces and to build a movement of resistance and a new political party of the left to fight for real progressive change and real democracy.
If Bernie won democratic primary, would we now be looking at...
Would the results of Election 2016 have been different had the race been between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump?
How the rest of the world is reacting to Trump’s victory
Hint: it’s pretty much as you’d expect.
Who won in 2016? Big money.
Neither Clinton nor Trump took on the role of corporate mega-donors this election.
Beyond future shock
We cannot allow this mass expulsion of vitriol and despair define our futures. We are stronger than that.
Donald Trump dismantles Hillary Clinton’s big money machine
Republican nominee scores upset despite being outraised, outspent.
The media and the earthquake
Our critic despairs of political coverage ever being put back together again.
POPULAR
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.