Tag: Election 2016
We need to understand what happened on election night, and fast
This election was a rejection of the status quo, which was all that Clinton promised.
Sanders supporters blame DNC: “Take responsibility”
Sanders’ supporters say the DNC has played a huge part in Donald Trump’s success.
This is voting in 2016: Armed intimidation squads, purged rolls, 868...
All of this comes as this year’s presidential election is the first in half a century to take place without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act.
Defying the politics of fear
We owe it to those who come after us not to be complicit in this evil.
Trump’s three biggest enablers
Donald Trump has poisoned America, but he didn’t do it alone. He had help from the GOP, the media, and the Democratic Party.
The education policies Americans will vote on this Tuesday
Here’s how voters’ decisions could affect schools.
Election 2016 and the growing global nuclear threat
Playing a Game of Chicken with Nuclear Strategy
How a disappearing and deluded middle class awaits the new president
Americans deluded by capitalist promises need to learn about progressive policies that would truly help them.
NBC local news accidentally posts US election results a week early,...
The premature results appeared on NBC affiliate WRCB in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but were stored on the servers of a widely used news content management platform.
Creating a national security state “democracy”
Or how the American political system changed and no one noticed.
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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.