Photo: Jeff Mitchell/Getty ImagesBernie Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic primary because black women - the Democratic Party's most reliable voting bloc - voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton during the early Southern primaries, giving her a delegate lead he could never ...read more
Last Friday, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 opened in 1,719 theaters across the country – the biggest opening for any of his films – but only made $3.1 million. Although it had the highest opening for a documentary in 2018, it was a letdown compared to the famous weekend in June ...read more
The strangest thing has been happening over the last couple of months. Ever since winning her primary in Queens, I've been hearing an awful lot about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Most of it negative. Some of it has been her own doing, like when she got into a pointless Twitter fight ...read more
Earlier today, Banter overlord Ben Cohen wrote an article calling out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for insinuating conservative Ben Shapiro was a catcaller, the creepy guys that shout at women as they walk by. Shapiro had challenged AOC to a debate on his show for $10,000 (donated to ...read more
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new darling of the Bernie Sanders left, won some points today on Twitter by shutting down conservative personality Ben Shapiro after he offered her $10,000 to debate him. Here's what happened: Shapiro countered: I try not to cover too much "he ...read more
In a rant directed at rising Latina political star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her how last night, Fox News personality Laura Ingraham decried both illegal and legal immigrants in the United States for ruining the country that "we know and love." “In some parts of the country, it ...read more
American views on economics is extremely strange for those who have spent a reasonable amount of time outside of the country. Growing up in Britain, my sense of what was economically "sane" ranged from democratic socialism to moderately deregulated capitalism. The Labour Party ...read more
You have to hand to the mainstream media, they will spin anything into a "the Democratic Party is at war with itself!" narrative. Last night, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turfed out 10-term congressman Joe Crowley in New York's 14th District. Somehow, this portends doom for the ...read more