All Views Articles for 2016-03-27
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Ralph Nader Why Bernie Sanders was Right to Run as a Democrat The two-party system suffocates independent challengers. I would know. Read more |
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Bhaskar Sunkara The 'Sanders Democrat' is Paving the Way for the Radical Left In 2006, when I told people that I was a socialist, they looked at me like I was crazy. To be a socialist was to be on the margins of American political life, wedded to a lost cause that disappointed... Read more |
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James Zogby Dangerous and Delusional The performances by four of the five remaining presidential candidates at AIPAC’s policy conference made this a perfectly strange and unsettling week in Washington. The entire affair was more of a... Read more |
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Erik Opsal Arizona’s Long Voting Lines Showed How Democracy is Broken. Here’s How to Fix it. While Americans waited for election results on Tuesday, some voters in Arizona waited five hours or more just to cast a ballot — long after the polls closed. “Eventually, I gave up at 6:40 p.m. when... Read more |
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Mark Ruffalo, Annie Leonard We Must Rebuild Our Democracy It started with the founding fathers. In America’s very first election, in 1788, the government officially barred all women, all people of color, and any man without land from voting. This was... Read more |
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David Korten The Thing Sanders, Trump, and Clinton Agree On. It’s That Bad. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is slated for an up-or-down vote in Congress. Proponents say it’s about free trade. But it looks more like corporate colonization. Read more |