Tag: Joe Biden
The invisible candidate and the progressive lion
As Americans on the progressive left might have expected, the one politician who is responding with the seriousness and the kind of reassuring competence that his fellow citizens need in such a difficult time, is Bernie Sanders.
Here’s how progressives scored 3 major wins in Illinois
A successful progressive campaign needs to have the right message and agenda and the right relationship between a candidate with vision and credibility and longer-term progressive infrastructure.
What’s Bernie’s next move? A coalition with Biden?
But with the coronavirus plague sweeping the country, Biden and Bernie should take the time to negotiate a coalition platform and even write the new laws on which they can both agree.
What the coronavirus emergency has to do with Biden vs. Sanders
A pair of campaign documents released this week by each candidate convey big differences in approach to the current unprecedented crisis.
Outside groups pour money into Biden support
With the odds in Biden’s favor, Priorities USA will now be the largest outside group in the race, and will use some of that budget backing the former vice president.
The ‘DemonCrats’ gift to Trump
Biden will get the nomination. Sanders will do his best, as the DemonCrats's loyal soldier (and he is NOT even in their party!) to rally his troops, the tens of millions, to swallow their pride and support Biden.
Is the DNC cheating? Again?
The DNC’s candidate always gains in the counting. And that is highly suspicious.
Everyone got Super Tuesday wrong. The three biggest surprises:
The eventual nominee will have to bridge the divide between these factions within the party.
Say it ain’t so, Joe. Or what, me worry?
We await a persuasive argument that explains how and why Joe Biden will be the Democratic David to take down this Goonish Goliath.
Joementum? Super Tuesday winnows the Democratic field to two
While Tuesday must have felt like a terrible loss for American progressives, Sanders is still in a better place than he was during the same period in 2016.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Mexicanization of the United States
The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.
Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations
A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.
The dark and sinister ideology driving Elon Musk’s actions
The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and their power as elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution is far greater than an unelected billionaire’s artificial power as Donald Trump’s hatchet man.