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
Last week, Jason Concepcion (aka netw3rk) wrote a piece for Grantland that was meant to help Englanders comprehend the finer points of the Atlanta Hawks - Brooklyn Nets game that was going to be taking place there later in the week. In it, while describing the concept of ...read more
A video has surfaced recently of Rafael Cruz, father of Senater Ted Cruz, claiming that the gay rights movement and evolution are tools socialists use to aid "The destruction of the traditional family." In a sermon he gave in June of this year, Cruz senior told his followers: ...read more
Russell Brand's public persona has gone through a very radical shift over the past few years - from bad boy celebrity to heavyweight intellectual/political agitator. A working class lad from Essex, England, Brand has brought his wit, insight and loquaciousness to the upper ...read more
Stan Greenberg and James Carville of Democracy Corp just put out a report on their recent focus group discussions with Republican voters, and the findings truly are horrifying. The comprehensive survey, titled "Inside the GOP: Report on focus groups with Evangelical, Tea Party, ...read more
By the Rev. Howard Bess: According to Luke’s gospel, the beginning of the ministry of Jesus as a reputational rabbi was marked by his public reading of a passage from the Isaiah scroll. His declaration was that a year special to God had arrived, a Jubilee Year that would ...read more
Of course, not really. But I'm using the conservative technique of extending one position on an issue to an entire ideology. What is notable is that people do not - repeat - do not, oppose increased taxes on rich people. Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes ...read more
