Hillary, Embrace Your Inner Bernie
I have been staying studiously neutral in this primary election, and it is a strange feeling. In the first part of my career, I lived in Iowa and dove in deep and early to presidential primaries. I had...
View ArticleAmerica 2016: Death Spiral or Rebirth?
America 2016: Death Spiral or Rebirth? by Susan C. StrongThese days in the U.S.are, as my old friend Tom Atlee used to say, “getting worse and worse, and better and better.” Which is to say things...
View ArticleThe black and brown firewall blocking Trump
We, the people of color of these United States of America, are going to be the salvation of this nation. We are the firewall that is standing strong against the travesty that we’ve just seen displayed...
View ArticleTrump's strategy to stoke the racist vote is poisoning himself in the states...
By now it’s fairly obvious that Donald Trump intends racism to be the centerpiece of his campaign for re-election. But the evidence—both the statistical, numerical kind, as well as the purely...
View ArticleImpeachment confirms it: Wooing the 'working class white voter' is a waste of...
The impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump is still in its early stages, but Democrats can already take one important lesson to heart. The polls show that the views of most so-called “working class” white...
View ArticleWhy you were wrong about Biden
I appreciate this diary by Kos, which celebrates that Joe Biden is turning out to be a much more progressive President than any of us thought he would be. However, it leaves a out a lot.No one is or...
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