Year: 2016

When to Invite the Far Right to the Party

I think it’s fair to call Jacobin a Trotskyist Marxist publication, since its publisher freely self-identifies that way. For you, maybe that means that you’re not interested in anything they say. For me, it means...

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Between Two Ferns

I watched parts of this.  “Hilarious”? I found it excruciating. It was the first time I came away just not liking Hillary: she came across as extremely guarded.  I have to say it makes me worry about debate...

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Trump tied with Clinton in Colorado?

New numbers from Quinnipiac (538 rating: A-), compared to its last poll on August 18. (margin of error: 3.9) Clinton: 44 (+3) Trump: 42 (+9) Johnson: 10 (-6) Head-to-head, it’s Clinton 47, Trump 47....

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Too Big to Compromise

Vox just published an interview that Zack Beauchamp conducted with Samuel Goldman, a professor of political theory at George Washington University. It’s worth reading in it’s entirety, but I particularly like this...

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What’s Left for the GOP to Build On?

Liberals always seem to be asking why it is that so many people of modest economic means choose to vote against their own interests for a party that wants to cut their entitlement benefits, give huge tax cuts to millionaires, do...

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