Tag: presidential race 2020
Can Trump delay election or reject peaceful transition of power? Amy...
Republicans are racing to confirm the 48-year-old federal judge before Election Day, which would give conservatives a commanding 6-3 majority on the high court.
Cornel West & Ben Jealous on the DNC and whether progressives...
“At this moment, with the decline and fall of the American empire, it looks as if the system is unable to generate enough energy to seriously reform itself. It remains sanitized, superficial."
Scientists, climate experts endorse Joe Biden as 2020 presidential candidate
"On Earth Day, we speak with one voice: we must elect Joe Biden the next president of the United States—for all our sakes."
It’s a scary time
The number of famous men accused of such assaults recently is astounding. Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, Joe Biden.
NYT writes post-mortems for a Sanders campaign it did its best...
The coronavirus may have halted most campaigning for now—but it evidently has not stopped anti-Sanders media bias.
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.
Progressives urge Elizabeth Warren to rally behind Bernie Sanders after she...
Supporters of Sanders say they hope she will throw her support behind their candidate in order to form a united “progressive front” and take on powerful corporate forces now lined up behind Biden.
Then there were two: Sanders wins California with Latinx support as...
The Democratic presidential primary has ended in a two-person race between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders.
The energizer Bernie and the power behind him
The electoral strength of the Bernie Sanders campaign is enmeshed with intensities of feeling and resolve for progressive change that pollsters and editorial writers are ill-equipped to measure or comprehend.
Sanders’ surge in the polls has Democratic officials reconsidering his chances
"...people should take him very seriously."
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.