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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Trump-Musk Social Security fraud hunt yields chaos, not criminals
An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.
Governor Hochul to make New York center of nuclear revival in US
Governor Kathy Hochul has also become involved in promoting nuclear power nationally.
The rise of AI warfare: How autonomous weapons and cognitive warfare are reshaping global...
The future of warfare may be decided by AI, but will humans have a role to play?
Harm reduction, not border cops, credited for historic drop in US overdose deaths
Experts say grassroots public health efforts—not federal drug crackdowns—are driving the largest decline in overdose deaths ever recorded, despite ongoing political attacks on harm reduction.
The MAGA Movement is Jonestown writ large
The reversion to primitivism bears a striking resemblance to the rise of the MAGA movement.