… How can progressives frame the economic debate on their own terms? All conservatives want to talk about is capitalism and socialism, but in doing so, they expose one of their greatest weaknesses – support for an economic system that puts the wealthy ahead of regular people. CONT. – pdf […] Read more »
The Democratic Party is being transformed. These House votes show how.
The decisive House of Representatives vote last Friday barring discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity marked a milestone in shifting American attitudes toward gay rights. But it also represented a landmark in the evolution of the Democratic Party into an urbanized coalition centered on the voters and communities […] Read more »
Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
Americans today are more closely divided than they were earlier in the last century when asked whether some form of socialism would be a good or bad thing for the country. While 51% of U.S. adults say socialism would be a bad thing for the country, 43% believe it would […] Read more »
Democrats were said to be furious and hungry for change. Then Biden jumped in.
… In his opening weeks as a presidential candidate, Biden has rejected much of the conventional wisdom that drove the first stretch of the Democratic nomination fight, refusing to play to the party’s liberal wing, focus on the wrongs of the past or call for revolutionary transformation. To the surprise […] Read more »
The only way Biden can win the presidency
Former Vice President Joe Biden officially launched his presidential campaign in Philadelphia on Saturday. Presenting himself as the antidote to President Donald Trump, Biden promised that he would unite and bring the nation together again. “I am running to offer our country — Democrats, Republicans and independents — a different […] Read more »
When it comes to the Democratic presidential field, bigger is not better
Can you name them? Can you name even half of them? Do you know where they come from or what they do or have done? Do you know for what they stand or how they differ? “They” are the blur of candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination. … The […] Read more »