Tag: Joe Biden
Biden and Buttigieg are showing how corporatism and ‘the madness of...
Devastating impacts of nonstop war are all around us in the United States, from deadly federal budget priorities to traumatic effects of normalized violence.
Buttigieg and Biden are masters of evasion
It’s understandable that corporate-backed candidates don’t want to be cornered by questions that touch on realities of political and economic power.
Leading among people of color and younger voters, Sanders right behind...
The new survey shows the Vermont senator trailing the former vice president by just two points.
Warren vs. Buttigieg clash offers contrast with Bernie’s consistency
he finger-pointing by Warren and Buttigieg over their histories has helped showcase the one front runner whose history is consistent and progressive.
People who want to ban fracking immediately, says Joe Biden, ‘oughta...
"Might I recommend Bernie Sanders: the climate candidate."
Joe Biden’s AstroTurf campaign
Biden’s decision last month to greenlight super PACs on his behalf has underscored just how eager he is to bankroll his AstroTurf campaign against grassroots progressives no matter what.
Biden and Bloomberg want Uncle Sam to defer to Uncle Scrooge
If Uncle Scrooge existed as a billionaire in human form today, it’s easy to picture him aligned with fellow plutocrats against the “threat” of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Fretting about progressives’ ‘electability,’ establishment Dems are really worried about their...
What establishment Democrats are really worried about, of course, is their own power in the party, which is threatened by a surging left wing.
Leading 2020 Democrats want to get money out of politics —...
Following Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) plan to bar corporate money from federal politics, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) each proposed overhauls to...
The more Joe Biden stumbles, the more corporate democrats freak out
The Democratic Party’s most powerful donors are running out of options in the presidential race. Their warhorse Joe Biden is stumbling, while...
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A successful general strike requires trauma-informed mutual aid
To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.
This is what accountability looks like
Whether it's the refusal to release all the Epstein files, the failure to punish Trump for his anti-democratic actions, or the launching of the war in Iran, the United States is becoming as unaccountable as Russia under Putin.
Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they...
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Trump economy loses 92,000 jobs in February as economists warn labor market weakness is...
New Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows unemployment rising and hiring slowing across major industries as economists warn that policy uncertainty, tariffs, and economic shocks are weighing on the labor market.