Tag: Election 2016
Why Hating the Media Could Make the Difference in November
The winning candidate may be the one who most successfully stirs the public's mistrust of journalists and journalism.
How to Make the Democratic Nominating Process Actually Democratic
A Sanders campaign advisor lays out 3 proposals.
Bernie Sanders Responds to Nevada Convention Debacle
“The Democratic Party has a choice. It can open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change...Or the party can choose to maintain its status quo structure."
Donald Trump Disrobed (It Isn’t Pretty…)
Either we recognize our own responsibility and demand better of ourselves AND our political leaders, or one day soon we will wake up and discover that the country we know and love is gone forever.
Dream On — GOP ‘Unity’ Looms as Trump Closing His Gun-to-the...
Just as the protean Donald will say anything to win votes, the Party of Hypocrisy now confirms its mind-blowing hypocrisy, willing to support a partial, perceived winner who says anything to win power. Is that how to to make Republicans, let alone America, great again? Or just Trump, the perfect, modern media candidate, talking in such empty constructs angry campers can project whatever they want? Now we understand why rightwingers will embrace the Trumpster, less for unity than desperation: it's not pretty to see a national party cornered, then nullified, or worse.
Why Trump Can Lie and No One Seems to Care
The GOP candidate gets away with outrageous, contradictory statements because the mainstream media and the public let him.
The Ghosts of ’68 Haunt the Election of 2016
A slender, long-forgotten work of fiction foresees the rage and frustration of Donald Trump's America.
Obama Expresses Support For Making Election Day A National Holiday
President Obama would like to change the way -- or the day -- Americans vote.
Trump Confronted With Reality That His New Economic Idea Would Destroy...
Trump's wild-eyed ideas about the national debt seem to be based on a gut feeling rather than reality.
Bernie Sanders Warns DNC Not to ‘Stack the Deck’ Against Him
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.
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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.