Saturday, March 21, 2026

Tag: Election 2016

Bernie Sanders Releases His ‘Boring’ 2014 Tax Return

Bernie Sanders earns less in one year than Hillary Clinton earns from one Wall Street speech.

Voting With Their Stone-Age Brains

Historian Rick Shenkman tells Bill Moyers that it's the voters and their emotions, not the candidates and their ideas, that will determine the outcome of the election in November.

On Israel, Sanders Is Right (And Clinton Knows It)

"With these words Bernie made a bit of history, and earned a lot of respect."

Democratic Debate Brings Fiercest Exchange Yet on Climate Change, Fracking

Reports confirm that Clinton’s biggest campaign bundlers have come from fossil fuel lobbyists.

Exclusive: Portraits of Trump Supporters

Think you know what Trump supporters are like? Take a look at the pictures below, you may be surprised.

The Story about Democratic Convention Pledged Delegates that Nobody Talks About

Clinton's only ahead of Sanders thanks to 6 Deep South states irrelevant in November.

Make Trump Great Again!

Toddlers have so much to teach Donald Trump as a person and as a presidential candidate.

Clinton’s Crumbling, Bernie’s Surging and a ‘Political Revolution’ Could Be in...

There is something big happening in the American body politic and in this presidential campaign. Bernie Sanders has touched a nerve and his campaign has gone from a quixotic experiment to a contest to a movement, and there may be no stopping it at this point, though Clinton may try.

The Clueless GOP Establishment is Fueling Hurricane Donnie Trump

Trying to knock-off Trump for Ryan is a sign of the GOP's irreversible decline into cluelessness and political irrelevance.

Fight the Establishment

See presidential elections as mostly a distraction, keeping most Americans from understanding that they live in a money-controlled delusional democracy.

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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.