Thursday, March 23, 2023

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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Senior climate activists rally across US to ‘stop dirty banks’

"We must break the big banks' addiction to Big Oil."

Black residents of Cancer Alley sue local government for discrimination in siting chemical facilities

“We’re being ignored and we have to do whatever we have to do to stop it.”

A highway to peace or a highway to hell?

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals. 

Is pretend politics—hawking a counterfeit self—the ultimate right-wing propaganda?

For “real” Rethugs one looks in vain –/ It’s quicksand, whether frauds or insane.

On MAGA’s deceptive fixation: founders ‘ordained this Christian nation’

But when did factual truth matter/ To yahoos seizing forms to shatter?