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Category: 2016 Election

• 2016 Election Business Health Care and Medicine US Political System

  Big Pharma: Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game

  Martin Shkreli is a man I admire in an odd sort of way. The recent controversy involving Mr. Shkreli and his price hike of the toxoplasmosis drug, Daraprim, seems to have caused misguided furor towards the 32-year-old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. He may epitomize a major problem with the pharmaceutical…

  September 30, 2015
• 2016 Election Labor US Political System

  Organized Labor Should Endorse Bernie Sanders

  The National Education Association (the union to which I used to belong) is considering an early endorsement of Hillary Clinton.  This decision, like the American Federation of Teachers’ endorsement of Clinton on July 11, would be a huge mistake. One reason is that it would violate members’ trust.  As Peter…

  September 27, 2015
• 2016 Election US Political System

  Candidates Routinely Threaten Wall Street, Follow Through with Little More than a Stern Scolding

  In this post, Part 2 in a series on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Emilio da Costa documents some of the actions that President Barack Obama has taken in the interests of the very wealthy. Emilio, who holds a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Berkeley and a…

  September 24, 2015
• 2016 Election US Political System

  Like Obama, Clinton Likely to Promise Big, Give Hope, and Disappoint

  The discrepancy between Barack Obama’s campaign rhetoric and actions as President have disappointed many of his former supporters.  In this post, the first in a series focused primarily on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Emilio da Costa explains why Obama’s political appointments bode poorly for what a Clinton presidency might…

  September 14, 2015
• 2016 Election Poverty and the Justice System Race and Religion

  Black Lives Matter Movement Gives Bernie Sanders’ Racial Justice Agenda the Push It Needs

  Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has unveiled a comprehensive racial justice agenda aimed at “addressing the four central types of violence waged against black and brown Americans: physical, political, legal and economic.”  The agenda includes, among other policy proposals, a call for police demilitarization, community policing, aggressive prosecution of police officers…

  August 9, 2015