Tag: Election 2016

The winning candidate may be the one who most successfully stirs the public's mistrust of journalists and journalism.

A Sanders campaign advisor lays out 3 proposals.

“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."

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.

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.

The GOP candidate gets away with outrageous, contradictory statements because the mainstream media and the public let him.

A slender, long-forgotten work of fiction foresees the rage and frustration of Donald Trump's America.

President Obama would like to change the way -- or the day -- Americans vote.

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

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.