Though first stopping to offer family and friends condolences after news broke on Saturday that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had unexpectedly passed away, the political world in the U.S. wasted no time in drawing the battle lines over the key who and when questions regarding the successor to the empty seat. Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) died […]
Does Noam Chomsky want to see Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders in the White House come November? Of the current crop of candidates, Chomsky believes Bernie Sanders would have the best policies—even though he may not be the socialist he proclaims he is. “Bernie Sanders may call himself a socialist, but he’s basically a New Dealer […]
New Hampshire resoundingly rejected the two major party’s mainstream candidates in its presidential primary Tuesday, with Bernie Sanders decisively beating Hillary Clinton on the Democratic ticket and Donald Trump overwhelming a pack of governors and U.S. senators who cannot seem to stop him. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary […]
In the mounting, panicky attempts of elites to derail the Bernie Sanders candidacy, one strand dominates. You find it woven through every sage piece from the old-school pundits of the New York Times and the hip insider websites like Vox. Yes, they say, he’s saying some useful things. But he can’t really make them happen. […]
In the new documentary Requiem for the American Dream, produced and directed by Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks and Jared P. Scott, Noam Chomsky argues that the collapse of American democratic ideals and the rise of the 1 percent means that the American dream is harder than ever to achieve. And unlike during the Great Depression, there seems to […]
In their most testy and substantive debate yet, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders argued Thursday night over the heart of Sanders’ critique of her candidacy—that you cannot be a progressive reformer if you’re too close to the wealthiest Americans. “I think it’s time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have […]
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders made history in Iowa Monday night ending 2016’s opening presidential nominating contest in an unprecedented virtual tie. Now that Iowa is in the rearview mirror, anticipation for the New Hampshire primary is growing daily and many Americans will be looking to tonight’s head-to-head Democratic debate to learn more about what sets the two […]
Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter has taken aim at the “erroneous” Supreme Court ruling that “gives legal bribery a chance to prevail.” Carter made the comments, an apparent reference to the 2010 Citizens United ruling, in an interview Wednesday with the BBC’s Today program. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaking at […]
Monday night was a “huge night,” Stephen Colbert told viewers of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He’s, of course, referring to the Iowa caucuses on Monday night. It was the closest caucuses in Iowa history for the Democrats, with Hillary Clinton defeating Bernie Sanders by a “razor-thin margin.” On the Republican side, Ted Cruz beat […]
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