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The Labor Prospect: Dems Debate
Democrats talk trade and paid leave, California tackles wage theft, and why $15 an hour may no longer be enough.Â
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What to Watch for in Tuesday’s Debate
A critical test will be who seems like a stronger candidate against the Republicans.Â
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Can Campaign Finance Be Reformed From the Bottom Up?
Despite hostile courts, can our campaign-finance system be reformed from the bottom up?
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This Just In: We Are Officially in a New Gilded Age
Yesterday, The New York Times dropped an investigative bombshell that confirmed in detail what most of us already know: The ultra-rich are in control of our electoral process. As the Times reports, just 158 families have contributed nearly half of all the money raised so far for the numerous presidential campaigns. “Not since before Watergate,” […]
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Ben Carson, American Gun Advocates, and the Fantasy of Individual Heroism
The delusion that one person with a rifle can fend off doomsday explains how many on the right see their relationship with the government.
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On Voting Rights, Carson is Actually the Sane Republican
Yesterday, at a campaign event in Iowa Republican contender Jeb Bush said he didn’t think the Voting Rights Act-a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement-should be reauthorized by Congress after the conservative Supreme Court gutted it in 2013. Here’s exactly what he had to say: ”If it’s to reauthorize it to continue to provide regulations […]
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Yearning for Biden Reveals Gender Bias Against Clinton
Am I the only one who remembers what a terrible presidential candidate the vice president was?
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Bernie Sanders Is About as Radical as Harry Truman
Sanders represents the pent-up demand of rank-and-file Democrats to get their party back.
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Bernie Wants to Get Money Out of Politics. So Where’s His Plan?
While Bernie isn’t short on rhetoric about getting money out of politics, he remains curiously short on specifics. For the past couple months, I’ve been chronicling the emerging debate over the role of money in politics and the increased calls for campaign-finance reform within the Democratic field. The most notable development in the political discourse […]
