To disqualify her because of her past undermines efforts to reform our criminal justice system.
Kamala Harris
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Kamala Harris Described What a Healthy Party Looks Like
Democrats are the party of ideas.
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How Can You Tell If Someone Is Running for President?
The media drops names all the time, but here’s who is actually doing the prep-work for a presidential run.
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Why Does Trump Oppose Election Reform?
The Senate was ready to move on an election protection bill until the White House stepped in.
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Riders on the Storm: The Disaster Trumpists Have Created
Defeating Trump in 2020 won’t be as easy as some liberals believe.
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Deaf to the Truth, Blind to the Facts: Those Divorced from Reality Don’t Care About Michael Flynn
It’s almost as though it didn’t happen. Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Michael Flynn affair is the harsh reality that a significant portion of this country simply does not care about Flynn’s acknowledged amorality and Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. They’re addicted to “news” outlets that are downplaying or denigrating the […]
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Moore’s the Pity: The Moral Horror of Alabama’s GOP Senate Nominee
C’mon. Despite the revelations of this past week, despite the polls showing his Democratic opponent ahead (remember those polls last November showing Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald Trump?), you might as well start calling him Senator Moore right now. It seemingly still has not dawned upon rational and logical Americans just how deep the rabbit […]
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Obama’s Lesson for Patrick, Booker, Harris and Cuomo: Running for President Isn’t Worth It
Remember a decade ago, when the right-wingers were complaining about “Rudy McRomney,” i.e., the prospect of the supposedly insufficiently conservative Rudy Giuliani, John McCain or Mitt Romney becoming the 2008 GOP nominee? The “Rudy McRomney” stuff didn’t make a lick of sense–Giuliani, McCain or Romney would have had to answer to the GOP’s right-wing base […]
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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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Bernie, Kamala, and the Left’s War of Mutually Assured Destruction
If the left’s factions don’t join together, they will fall together.
