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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…