The perennial third-party presidential aspirant can’t be a spoiler if voters don’t know she exists
Ralph Nader
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Andrew Yang’s Road Not Taken
If the puckish former presidential candidate wants to own the libs or stay semi-famous, there was a better way to go.
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The Blueprint for Corporate Power Turns 50
Before he was a Supreme Court Justice, Lewis Powell was a Richmond, Virginia lawyer fearful that “revolutionaries” were destroying capitalism. His 1971 memo is a reminder of a time when Ralph Nader scared Big Business witless.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Limbaugh’s 30 Years of Lies and Fear
The damage Limbaugh inflicted upon our country during the 1990s and 2000s will take decades to be repaired, if ever.
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Those Who Do Not Learn from History
Look how much has changed–and how much has not. It was fifteen years ago today that President George W. Bush, flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney, spoke in the Rose Garden and defied right-wing ideology by acknowledging that human-caused climate change was real. It was a frustrating speech in many respects, filled with the usual […]
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The Difference One Man Can Make
A familiar literary conception holds that when an honest man challenges a dishonest system, it’s the man who gets destroyed. At one end of the literary scale, this is the message of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, in which the citizens of a resort town ostracize their local doctor rather than let him […]
