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Beyond the Sound Bites: Election 2016
Our election coverage provides the context, history and investigative substance necessary to hold officials - and the system as a whole - accountable to democracy.
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Third Parties Eager to Disrupt the Presidential Race and the Two-Party System
This election season, third-party candidates are fighting for votes, media coverage and debate time like never before.
The Supreme Court Is at Stake: Why the Presidential Election Matters
A US Supreme Court for the few or the many? Not voting gives your voice to others to decide.
William Rivers Pitt | Donald Trump Has Already Destroyed the GOP
The GOP is not in danger of being destroyed. It is already gone.
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Like It or Not, the Democratic Party Now Must Answer to Millennials
Younger voters supporting Bernie Sanders have become a force with which the Democratic establishment will need to reckon.
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TV Is Donald’s Free Trump Card to Stoke Racism
Donald Trump's political rise can be largely attributed to the permanent guest member of most US families — television.
Economist Paul Craig Roberts: Greece Must Leave the Eurozone to Regain Its Sovereignty
Paul Craig Roberts, a former undersecretary of the US Treasury, discusses how indebted countries are forced to accept austerity.
William Rivers Pitt | Election 2016: Let’s Drop Acid and Have a Presidential Race
When the bent roadshow that is this 2016 presidential election season kicked off, I said to myself, “Get ready. This one is going to be really weird.”
Let’s Open Up the Democratic Party to Public Participation
Here are four proposed reforms which could benefit from a public and recorded vote at the Democratic National Convention.
Let’s Get Serious About Inequality and Socialism
If we are serious about inequality, we have to address the supremacy of capital, directly and forcefully.
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Sanders May Be All but Finished, but the Fight for a Better Future Is Not
Why direct our energy into the Democratic Party? What the progressive left really needs is a party of our own.