As single-payer gains traction in Congress, lawmakers are considering what next steps to take.
Bernie Sanders
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Why Democrats Should Dump ‘Free College’
Free college is not so much a populist idea as an elitist one.
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‘The System Is Rigged’ vs. ‘Yes We Can’
One message communicates despair and fear, the other inspires hope and enthusiasm.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Message Failure From Nina Turner and Our Revolution
Rather than compare and contrast her organization’s agenda with that of the Democrats, Turner threw a temper tantrum.
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The Unconscious Bias of Sanders and Some of His Supporters
Robbing women and people of color of their own agency brings on charges of sexism/racism.
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‘The Left’ Should Gaze at Their Own Navel
The Sanders left has practical reasons not to attack Kamala Harris, Deval Patrick, and Cory Booker as a group.
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Single Payer and the Challenge of Loss Aversion
Americans tend to value what they have more than what they might gain if they give it up.
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The Democrats Are Re-learning Populism
Chuck Schumer’s op-ed lays out a long overdue populist, progressive plan for Democrats.
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Operation Bury Bernie: The Political Motive of the Jane Sanders Investigation
Imagine a sports team celebrating a championship victory even before the playoffs have started, and you have a good idea of what the mood must have been like among Donald Trump’s top political advisors after the New York Times ran this story: A federal investigation into a long-ago land deal by Senator Bernie Sanders’s wife […]
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Trumpism: This Too Shall Pass?
Ask yourself: if George W. Bush had been considered a successful president, would Barack Obama have been elected in 2008? Looking back, it’s a bit difficult to see how Obama could have won absent Bush being regarded as an absolute disaster; the raw bigotry that Donald Trump exploited in his 2016 presidential campaign was obviously […]
