Along with giving the Sanders campaign 80% of what it wants, the national Democratic Party platform, as drafted last weekend, rejects the poor-shaming misogyny of the Hyde…
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My man Bernie Sanders may be about to endorse Hillary Clinton, and Sanders may be securing Clinton’s and the party’s support on key policy issues (public option and…
Hobby Lobby buys up the back page of my Fourth of July paper to remind me that they think America is only for people like them…
One solution to solving the scourge of payday lending is to pass Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap, to prevent loan sharks from trapping poor…
Ultra-conservative blogger Bob Ellis bangs out 6,750 words on why he can’t support Donald Trump and tells us his essay is “not even remotely exhaustive or…
Is Bernie Sanders the most powerful candidate of the year? The Vermont Senator hasn’t only pulled the Democratic nominee his direction on a host of progressive…
The Texas Tribune reported last week that the Texas Department of Health Services has since February been withholding data that could show the impact of Texas’s abortion clinic restrictions…
Adolf Hitler rode economic anxiety to control of the Reichstag and the Chancellor’s office. Donald Trump plays some tunes on that fiddle, but there’s also a deep…
A friend of mine in the “Bernie or Bust” camp says Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be President. This friend says that Clinton, among…