Category: 2016 Election
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Voting for Bernie Sanders, Learning from Ta-Nehisi Coates
Several months ago, Black Lives Matter activists targeted Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with protests. Many of my fellow Sanders supporters thought these protests unfair, in large part, as I explained at the time, because Sanders “has an excellent record on racial justice issues, much better than any other candidate…
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Bernie Sanders-Style Health Care Would Be a Big Win for Low- and Middle-Income Americans
Bernie Sanders just released his new proposal for a single-payer health care system. As former US Labor Secretary Rob Reich notes, Sanders’ plan would be “a huge advance over what we have now.” Reich’s summary: It builds on the strengths of Medicare. Like Medicare, it’s universal — separating health insurance…
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Donald Trump is A Problem, Not The Problem
Last September, Frank Rich wrote an article for New York Magazine entitled “The Importance of Donald Trump: Far from destroying our democracy, he’s exposing all its phoniness and corruption in ways as serious as he is not. And changing it in the process.” How so? Rich argued that Trump has…
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From Constituent to Elizabeth Warren: Please Endorse Bernie Sanders
Jesse Koklas, a volunteer for the Bernie Sanders campaign with a B.A. in Politics and French & Francophone Studies from Brandeis University, recently asked her senator, Elizabeth Warren, to endorse Sanders in the Democratic Primary. A version of the letter she sent is below. Dear Senator Warren, Please endorse Senator…
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Why I Reject Lesser-of-Two-Evils-ism
If Hillary Clinton ends up winning the Democratic nomination for president, some Bernie Sanders supporters will vote for her anyway. I can respect that decision. While the differences between Democrats and Republicans are often overstated – to give just two examples (there are many), the same people advise Clinton, Marco…
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What’s Wrong with the Democratic Party
Two things that happened this week illustrate much of what’s wrong with the Democratic party. First, Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon doubled down on Clinton’s commitment, voiced at the last Democratic debate, to avoid any tax increases at all on the “middle class.” Second, the Service Employees International Union…
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Hillary Clinton’s Less than Stellar Record on Trade
In this post, Part 4 in a series on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Emilio da Costa describes Clinton’s record on international trade and business issues. Emilio, who holds a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from Stanford, can be…
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Digging Deeper Into Democratic Donors
After I argued that labor unions should endorse Bernie Sanders about a month ago, a Hillary Clinton supporter complained on Twitter about this section of my article: The following meme, describing cumulative donations the candidates have received over the past thirty years, is illustrative: She voiced two criticisms of the…
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What It Means to be Tough on Wall Street
I nearly spit out the hard apple cider I was drinking when I heard the following exchange during the first Democratic presidential debate: Anderson Cooper: Senator Sanders wants to break up the big Wall Street banks. You don’t. You say charge the banks more, continue to monitor them. Why is…
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