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  • Privilege: Many Jill Stein Voters Have It, and Many Hillary Clinton Voters Do, Too

    Privilege: Many Jill Stein Voters Have It, and Many Hillary Clinton Voters Do, Too

    As an outspoken supporter of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, I often get questions akin to the one Stein was asked at the Green Town Hall on August 17: “Given the way our political system works, effectively you could help Donald Trump like Ralph Nader helped George Bush in…

  • War in the Name of God: Christianity Is No Less Addicted Than Any Other Religion

    War in the Name of God: Christianity Is No Less Addicted Than Any Other Religion

    America’s wars are religious affairs in which young people are called to sacrifice themselves for the Christian God.

  • Jonathan Chait’s False Equivalence

    Jonathan Chait’s False Equivalence

    Pundits get justifiably upset when voters or political candidates suggest that Hillary Clinton is just as bad as Donald Trump.  The differences between Clinton and Trump and the dangers Trump poses are frequently overstated, but for those of us who believe in social justice, there’s no denying that four years…

  • Truth or Politics

    Truth or Politics

    Tom Block is an author, artist, and activist whose most recent book, Machiavelli in America, explores the influence of the 16th-century Italian political philosopher on America’s politics.  Machiavelli’s impact is particularly apparent today, as Block explains in the post below.  Block (who you can follow on Twitter at @tomblock06 and…

  • What Unity Should Mean

    What Unity Should Mean

    If headlines about the Democratic convention (shown below) are any indication, the main purpose of the event is “party unity.”  Calls to “Unite Blue” have been intensifying as the Democratic primary process has inched towards a close and represent a pitch for Bernie Sanders supporters to rally around Hillary Clinton,…

  • Bernie Sanders Knows What He’s Doing and Is Doing It Quite Well

    Bernie Sanders Knows What He’s Doing and Is Doing It Quite Well

    According to Politico, House Democrats booed Bernie Sanders during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, July 6.  They would like him to officially end his presidential campaign and were frustrated that, in response to calls to endorse Hillary Clinton, he stated that his goal “is to transform America,” not just “to…

  • There’s a Reason People Think the Democratic Primary Was Unfair and Undemocratic: It Was

    There’s a Reason People Think the Democratic Primary Was Unfair and Undemocratic: It Was

    Journalists have been cautioning Bernie Sanders against “suggesting the entire political process is unfair,” insisting that doing so could have “negative and destabilizing consequences.”  They contend that he must “argue to his supporters that the outcome of the [Democratic primary] process was legitimate” so that he can convince them to…

  • The Heroines of 34justice

    Update (8/29/17): Sadly, Aung San Suu Kyi has not only condoned but helped facilitate the Burmese government’s ethnic cleansing of the country’s Muslim minority population in the time since this post was written. Given this atrocity and thanks to the heads up from Richard Tilley and others, we have decided to remove…

  • Perspective Should Trump Sensationalism

    Prominent Democratic media figures and politicians have long argued that Donald Trump is a uniquely terrifying threat to America’s future.  Back in February, for example, Ezra Klein called Trump “the most dangerous presidential candidate in memory.”  In March, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claimed that Trump is “the most…

  • The Electability Counterfactual

    In Pennsylvania, the biggest delegate prize on Tuesday, April 26, 11 percent of Democratic primary voters indicated in exit polls that “electability” was the “candidate quality” they cared about most.  Of those voters, 83 percent cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton. The results were similar in Connecticut and Maryland and…