With His Opponent Stumbling Following His Big Michigan Win, Bernie Should Attack Hillary’s Integrity
With Clinton stumbling and after his big surprise win in Michigan, Sanders needs to now start playing hardball in his campaign, going after Clinton at her weakest point: her lack of trustworthiness and integrity, which voters are saying is their biggest concern.
Are Trade Deals Good for America?
If the winners refuse to budge, America could turn its back on free trade – and much else. Indeed, there’s no telling where the anger we’ve seen this primary might lead.
How to Make Billboards Uglier
At best, these giant corporate placards are problematic: They garishly loom over us, clutter our landscapes and intrude into our communities with no respect for local aesthetics or preferences.
Unsure About Socialism? Here’s More Evidence That Capitalism Is Killing America
Reports from the past six months show that the ongoing record of capitalist greed and irresponsibility has plunged to new lows.
GOP Debate: Setting The Record Straight On Social Security
Here are some facts about Social Security that can help people who are worried by these Republican lies and scare tactics.
Dear Hillary, You’re Losing My Vote
Clinton’s campaign, which exploits institutional bias and deception, is a diversion from our national challenges. Many of us expect more.
Medea Benjamin: Pink-Slipping Hillary
A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war — killing people around the world, plenty of them women and children.
The Coddling of the Capitalist, White-Supremacist, Patriarchal American Mind
When does merely offensive speech becomes oppressive? When should one person’s freedom of expression, no matter how offensive, be defended and when does a pattern of abusive expression clearly undermine the ability of others to participate fully in a classroom discussion?
Top 5 Crazy Things Ben Carson Said About the Middle East and Islam
Ben, we bloggers will all miss you, as will all the standup comedians.
When the Poetry of Campaigning Becomes a Cheesy, Dirty Limerick
Political rhetoric in the GOP has degenerated into name-calling and petty insults.