Jan 30, 2016 | Elections - Presidential (2016), mic, Scandals
Published: The Good Men Project (January 30, 2016) 815 words into the Associated Press's recent 949 word piece on Hillary Clinton's email scandal, one will find a passage that should appear at the very beginning: The FBI also is looking into Clinton's email setup, but has said nothing about the nature of its probe. Independent experts says it's unlikely Clinton will be charged with wrongdoing,...
Jan 22, 2016 | Elections - Presidential (2016), mic
Published: Salon (January 22, 2016), The Good Men Project (January 16, 2016) Apparently former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is thinking of running for president as a third-party candidate. The New York Times reports that Bloomberg commissioned a private poll to see how he would fare if the Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton and the Republicans nominate Donald Trump, which seems likely...
Jan 19, 2016 | Elections - Presidential (2016), mic
Published: Salon (January 19, 2016) The most important moment of Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate involved not what was said, but what moderator Lester Holt made sure his audience would never get to hear. After permitting Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to offer lengthy replies to a question on the drug epidemic, he cut off Martin O’Malley and moved to a commercial break despite...
Jan 15, 2016 | Conservativism, Elections - Presidential (2016), Extremism, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Media Issues, mic, Political Ideologies, Race and Racism
Published: The Good Men Project (January 12, 2016) The Internet is understandably indignant that Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, has been invited to appear at President Obama's State of the Union. Insofar as they are outraged at this doffing of a symbolic hat to a walking symbol of homophobia, they are absolutely correct. At...
Jan 7, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016)
Published: The Good Men Project (January 7, 2016) For the record, I don't believe Donald Trump is going to be our next president. Similarly, I would be shocked if the Democratic Party nominated Kanye West as their presidential candidate in 2020, despite his declared intention to run. That said, I can't help but wonder... What if? What if Trump manages to stave off Ted Cruz and win the Republican...
Dec 31, 2015 | Elections - Presidential (2016), Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Gender and Sexism, mic, Race and Racism
Published: Salon (December 31, 2015), The Daily Dot (December 26, 2015) Although the term “social justice warrior” was constructed as an insult against progressive activists, the year 2015 has amply demonstrated why liberals should embrace the term. Social justice issues dominated the year, from race to sexual identity and beyond. Here are five ways the United States grappled with with social...
Dec 24, 2015 | Elections - Presidential (2016), mic, Republicans
Published: Salon (December 24, 2015), The Good Men Project (December 22, 2015) A brief but telling statement about Donald Trump's early years, courtesy of a former high school classmate: "He didn’t mingle with the rest of the corps who were not as high ranked. He lived in a different set of barracks." I'm drawing attention to this quote because it highlights my main observation about Trump's...
Dec 20, 2015 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Immigration, mic, Political Parties, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues
Published: MSNBC (December 20, 2015) Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley were unified on one topic during the last Democratic presidential debate of the year Saturday night: The toxicity of Donald Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. Each candidate seized on the opportunity to decry racial and religious bigotry — and encouraged the rest of America...
Dec 19, 2015 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Political Parties
Published: The Good Men Project (December 19, 2015) I suppose I should be happy that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has reversed its decision to block the Bernie Sanders campaign from its own voter data. For one thing, the punishment was grossly out of proportion to the crime - without proof that Sanders himself knew about the leaks from Hillary Clinton's campaign, denying him access to...
Dec 18, 2015 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Political Parties
Published: The Daily Dot (December 18, 2015) If you watched the second Democratic presidential debate five weeks ago, consider yourself an anomaly. That event was the lowest rated of the debates held so far during the 2016 election cycle, drawing in only 8.55 million viewers. Compared to the monster ratings drawn by Donald Trump and the GOP–the Las Vegas debate on Tuesday drew 18 million...