If Cuomo wants to be president, he’ll need to stop punching the left.
Bernie Sanders
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Healthy Criticism from–and Unhealthy Criticism of–Bernie Sanders
For all the lingering controversies surrounding his 2016 presidential campaign, one cannot deny the fact that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders generated so much momentum during that effort because of his clear moral vision concerning such issues as universal health coverage. That clear moral vision was on display this morning, during his appearance on CNN’s State […]
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The Questions Democrats Have to Answer to Run on Single Payer
The goal sounds good, but the steps to getting there are much more complex.
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Sorry, But Randy Bryce Doesn’t Have a Chance in Hell Against Paul Ryan
The late ultraconservative Boston City Councilor Albert “Dapper” O’Neil always used to boast that when he ran for re-election, they wouldn’t count the votes in his landslide wins; they would weigh them. I wouldn’t be surprised if House Speaker Paul Ryan makes a similar boast after his next re-election effort. Randy Bryce, the Democratic ironworker […]
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Is Bernie Sanders Done For?
Even if you think the world of the man, you have to admit he seems to have the anti-Midas touch these days. First, there was his own campaign. Galvanizing to progressive activists and young voters. Inspiring to millions. Passionate, driven, wildly successful in terms of fundraising. Still couldn’t seal the deal in the Democratic primary. […]
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Evaluating Sanders’s Proposals for the Democratic Party
The Senator from Vermont proposed seven goals for the party to embrace in order to stop losing elections.
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California Just Got the Price Tag for Single Payer Health Insurance
It would equal the state’s entire annual budget.
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What Can Brown Do for the Democratic Party?
Assuming, improbably as it may seem now, that Donald Trump survives and runs for a second term (hey, stranger things have happened), who will Democrats embrace as their post-Barack Obama, post-Hillary Clinton champion? It’s not too early to speculate: the 2020 Democratic presidential primary will be here before you know it, and we could once […]
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Quist’s Quest: Can A Prairie Progressive Beat the Cult of Trumpism?
What will it mean if Rob Quist can’t seal the deal? The Democratic candidate in the May 25 special election to fill the at-large Congressional district vacated by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has been heralded as the sort of candidate that Democrats must turn to in order to regain lost ground. Quist certainly has impeccable […]
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Suicide Squad: Trump’s Loyalists Will Never Care About His Abuses of Power
It doesn’t even matter. That’s the shame of it. No matter what Donald Trump says, how he acts, or who he fires, there will always be a good 45 percent of the electorate that will never give a damn, and will be right in line on November 3, 2020 ready and raring to re-elect him. […]
