Just for fun, I spent a few minutes taking The Guardian's "How Populist Are You?" quiz. The first image is of several world leaders and populist politicians including Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump scattered on a chart of how populist they are and ...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
After losing the Democratic nomination in 2016, Bernie Sanders started Our Revolution, an organization devoted to grassroots organizing and raising the profiles of progressive candidates. However, today's POLITICO article by Edward-Isaac Dovere paints a bleak picture of an ...read more