Published: Salon (April 5, 2016)
There is one issue in which Donald Trump is much more progressive than Hillary Clinton – and, unless she learns from history and decisively changes the way Americans perceive her positions here, it may wind up costing her the presidency.
I’m referring, of course, to American trade policy.... Read Original Article
Published in Network Magazine (April 4, 2016)
Author’s Note: This piece was written in my capacity as Communications Chairman of the Northampton County Democratic Party back in March, before John Kasich replaced Marco Rubio as the so-called “moderate” alternative to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential primaries. It was co-authored with Matthew Munsey, Chairman of the Northampton County Democratic Party, with the goal of encouraging Pennsylvania Democrats to turn out and vote in our state’s primary on April 26th.... Read Original Article
Published: The Good Men Project (April 2, 2016)
Since the start of the year, I’ve written several pieces for Salon insisting that Bernie Sanders supporters vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election should she be tapped as the Democratic Party nominee. There are several reasons why I have done this: although I prefer Sanders over Clinton, I genuinely believe she would be a fine president; the prospect of a Donald Trump or Ted Cruz presidency is so terrifying that it makes the contrast with Clinton all the more flattering to her; and, most importantly, I personally know many fellow Sanders supporters who have said that they would abstain from voting or cast their ballots for a third-party alternative in the likely event of a Clinton-Trump election.... Read Original Article
Published: Quartz (March 30, 2016)
With many months to go before the conclusion of the US presidential primaries, battles lines in the Democratic party have become deeply entrenched. Just as right-wingers love to claim that Hillary Clinton is a radical liberal disguised as a moderate, so too are many progressives inclined to see her as a conservative corporatist whose liberal stances merely pander to the Democratic Party base.... Read Original Article
Published: The Daily Dot (March 24, 2016)
There was an interesting debate at the University of Pennsylvania this week. TheFoundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, hosted a panel discussion on the effectiveness of hashtag activism.
The debate featured Zeynep Tufekci, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Zellie Imani, an educator whose protest career was forged in the literal fire of the Ferguson protests.... Read Original Article
Published: Salon (March 22, 2016), The Good Men Project (March 19, 2016)
Shame on you, President Obama, for trying to undermine Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign.
As The New York Times reported on Thursday, Obama privately told a group of Democratic donors in Austin, TX that they needed to unite behind Hillary Clinton because Sanders would soon have to end his presidential bid.... Read Original Article