The significance of Bernie Sanders’s opposition to Donald Trump’s Syria bombing
In years past, it has often been difficult to find anti-militarist beacons in Congress – Democrats included. Particularly since Dennis
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Author: Thomas Gallagher
The Democratic Party Left After the Ellison DNC Campaign: Unite or Fight?
One thing to keep in mind about the recent Thomas Perez–Keith Ellison race for Democratic National Committee chair is that it was pretty much an only-in-America sort of thing. Were we in any kind of parliamentary system – like most countries have – the two sides would probably be in different parties – the Bernie Sanders core of the Ellison
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In It For the Long Run
The most interesting idea I encountered during the recent American primary season actually appeared in the British magazine, The Economist,
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Feeling the Bern: An Analysis of the Sanders Phenomenon
When Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for president, his assertion that he was in this to win seemed like maybe the kind of statement a candidate feels he has to make. If you followed this sort of thing, a more modest and reasonable hope seemed to be that he’d at least fare better than Dennis Kucinich, the last candidate of the left to attempt a significant candidacy, in 2004 and 2008. As a U.S. Senator, self-identified socialist, and the longest serving independent member of Congress, Sanders hopefully could…
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