Build the Keystone Pipeline? Hillary versus Bernie in two (extremely...
First, let me be very clear: climate change is likely to be catastrophic. New research published this week announced, if anything, the impact will be even worse than scientists have thought in the...
View ArticleOn Medicare's birthday, Bernie Sanders reiterates his support for...
Folks, there is nothing more barbaric and cruel -- not to mention wasteful of tax dollars -- than the American health care non-system.So, today, on the 50th birthday of Medicare, it was refreshing to...
View ArticleDeray: The "violence" framing in the initial draft of Sanders' Racial Justice...
Bernie Sanders' campaign released an outstanding draft racial justice platform this morning, which draws strongly on powerful ideas regarding structural violence. We must pursue policies that transform...
View ArticleBernie Sanders in LA: Over 27,000 in attendance! This thing is real. The...
Over 27,000 people have showed up to join Bernie Sanders in Los Angeles.You can watch the speech on this livestream.Sarah Silverman gave Bernie an awesome introduction.Sarah Silverman is here to...
View ArticleThe Hillary Clinton campaign just posted an incredibly condescending, glib...
Comedian Rob Delaney -- with 1.18 million followers -- agrees that Hillary should be embarrassed by this tweet. I've put off forming relationships, lived in sub-standard housing and avoided happy...
View ArticleMakes Sense: This Red Hot Chili Pepper is Feeling The Bern
Suppose it makes sense in terms of loving the "bern," right?Michael Peter Balzary ("Flea") -- bassist and co-founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers -- is Feeling The Bern.bernie sanders is the...
View ArticleAmazon mixes the brutality of the Victorian workhouse with the paranoia of...
If you want to understand 21st century exploitation of labor by the billionaire class, you must read this horrifying story about Amazon's working conditions from the New York Times.In short, Amazon...
View ArticleVox Executive Editor Matthew Yglesias is out with another smug hit piece on...
Voxdotcom Executive Editor Matthew Yglesias has to be the most smug journalist in the history of new media. Or at least that's how I felt after reading Mr. President of Reddit's latest hit piece on...
View ArticleMartin Shkreli's greed knows no end. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate...
Meet Martin Shkreli.He's kind of like the realDonaldTrump of pharmaceutical executives, except Donald Trump is probably the more humane of the two, as he would call for raising taxes on this former...
View ArticleAmerican Supreme Court bans corporate political financing of elections
Fantastic news: "The influence of economic power culminates by turning the electoral process into a political game of marked cards, an odious pantomime that turns the voter into a puppet, crumbling in...
View ArticleOklahoma will execute a (quite possibly) innocent man on Wednesday. It's time...
No need to visit Saudi Arabia, North Korea or China -- the United States has its own rogue state content to execute citizens based on dubious evidence. It's called Oklahoma.And, on Wednesday, if...
View ArticleWe can't fix U.S. gun violence until we address the psychosis at the heart of...
What happened on Thursday was incredibly tragic. So, again, we'll have thousands and thousands of journalists compete to offer "hot takes" on quick fixes to the gun violence problem in America. We'll...
View ArticleDoes this Silvio Berlusconi campaign advertisement remind you of anyone?
Even as (real) Donald Trump continues to maintain a strong lead in a variety of polls, many Americans continue to dismiss his becoming president as completely beyond the realm of imagination.Really?...
View ArticleChanneling Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton calls for end to private,...
At a meeting with Deray McKesson and BlackLivesMatter movement leaders today, Hillary Clinton has apparently come out against the private, for-profit prison industry. (Although she is apparently...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter activists disappointed by Hillary Clinton's understanding...
Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott -- and many, many others -- we know their names, and, if we weren't aware before, we now know that America's problem with police brutality and violence against...
View ArticleThis video -- from Sweden in 1982 -- will convince you Bernie is right about...
In 1982, Olof Palme -- former leader of Sweden's Social Democratic Party -- spoke about what made him a socialist.(Click the gear symbol to turn on the English subtitles. H/t to Matt Bruenig.)I was...
View ArticleThey think it's a game: greedy health insurers plan to keep premiums low by...
In America, health insurers -- members of an "industry" best defined with obscenities -- apparently think it's a game.Yes, they think your health, your wellbeing, your finances, are a game -- a game of...
View ArticleUltra-wealthy Hillary donors label Bernie supporters as "naive" and...
While I respect Hillary Clinton for her accomplishments, I do not respect her millionaire donors -- pushing their special interests ahead of the public interest.Politico published an interesting window...
View ArticleBernie hasn't discussed this feature of Danish political economy yet. If he...
Last night Anderson Cooper had his fun getting a dig in at Bernie with a cute debate about capitalism, and Bernie responded as we might have predicted: listing all the nice goodies in the Danish...
View ArticleThe United States has the world's poorest middle class
Yes, but is anyone here really surprised?The Washington Post is out with some important charts incorporating data from the Credit Suisse Research Institute, which releases an annual report on global...
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