The Republicans’ Trump Problem
The Republican Party has a problem. At the time I am writing (March 24, 2016), Donald Trump enjoys a clear lead in the race for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination. With nearly 60% (739) of the 1,237 delegates required for the nomination, more than both of his remaining opponents, Ted ...
Vision and Reality in Bernie’s Revolution
A Working-Class Hero Is Something To Be
Bernie Sanders and the White Working Class
A good deal of ink has been spilled over the question of Bernie Sanders’s relationship to African American voters, and it still remains a real question whether he can attract enough black Democratic voters in the upcoming primaries to close the distance between himself and Hillary Clinton. Even his historic ...
A Gray View of the Presidential Election Campaign as Seen from Paris
An American Tragedy
A Response to Occupy the Party
Mothers, Daughters, and Democratic Primaries
The Sanders Campaign and ‘Political Revolution’
Support yes, credulity no
The Bernie Sanders campaign for President is one of the most exciting and hopeful developments in US politics in decades. Sanders is, and long has been, a man of principle -- democratic socialist principle. He articulates a clear message -- that a more genuine democratic politics in the United States needs to ...
Why Cass Sunstein Is Wrong About The One Percent
Episode 20-Clinton, Reconstruction, Curvy Barbie and Bernie Sanders’ Unreligion
Clinton vs. Sanders: Who’s the real progressive?
The Democratic Party Presidential primary is now heating up as a two-person race between two evenly matched candidates, both of whom declare themselves and not their adversary to be a “progressive.”
Bernie Sanders has declared that “You can be a moderate. You can be a progressive. But you cannot be a ...