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Jeff Weaver: “Bernie Would Have Won. Period.”
Jeff Weaver, Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, has written a tell-all book obtained early by VICE News. This one is written with the future in mind. Namely, a possible 2020 presidential…
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A murder of crows
Who is the most despicable character in the Trump administration? Trump... That is obvious but still remarkable. Donald Trump has assembled around him a whole army of Darth Vaders, and…
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Bernie Sanders has conquered the Democratic Party
A large portion of the Democratic Party dismissed Bernie Sanders as an interloper, a naive radical, or even just another entitled white male during his presidential run in 2016. Which…
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The Trump effect
Call it the Trump effect, that giant sucking sound we have been hearing for the last 15 months. It is the sound of all the air being sucked out of the room where democratic politics,…
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Former First Lady Barbara Bush dead at 92
Barbara Bush, the widely admired wife of one president and the fiercely loyal mother of another, died Tuesday evening. She was 92.
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Donald Trump and the philosophy of ‘making things worse’
“The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals,” wrote Donald Trump in his first book, "The Art of the Deal." A whole theory of American political science is…
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MLK: More radical than you think
In the five decades since King’s death, he has been turned into an icon, a national holiday in his name established. But in the process, the radical social activist has been transformed…
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Assessing race relations under the Trump administration
Just under half of all Americans say race relations in the United States are worse than they were a year ago, and few are optimistic race relations will improve in the year ahead,…
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Scott Pruitt’s agency for pillaging the environment
Last week it was Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt’s turn to provide yet another example of the ethical shabbiness that prevails within the Trump machine.…
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The United States: Total war
The appointment of John Bolton as Donald Trump's national security adviser has just turned U.S. foreign policy dangerous. His appointment, along with that of Mike Pompeo as secretary of…
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