Published: Salon (April 9, 2016), The Good Men Project (April 7, 2016)
When Martin Luther King Jr. is brought up in a political conversation, it is usually in reference to his work for civil rights…. and if you’re a member of the proverbial one percent, this is definitely for the best.... 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 Huffington Post (March 21, 2016), The Good Men Project (March 17, 2016)
Whenever I talk to potential voters who doubt Hillary Clinton (not outright oppose her, mind you, but simply have reservations), I find there are two arguments which are most likely to convince them to develop a more favorable view of her potential presidency.... Read Original Article
Published: The Good Men Project (December 5, 2015)
The last president to be elected without winning his home state was James Polk in 1844. The last one to be re-elected without conquering his own political stomping grounds was Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
These data points become a bit more interesting when you look at the current field of Republican presidential candidates.... Read Original Article
Published: Alternet (November 29, 2015), Salon (November 27, 2015)
If you’re a Democrat (or, for that matter, a progressive of any stripe) the chances are you’ve heard conservatives evoke the founding fathers when dismissing your beliefs on economic issues. The term “socialist” has become such a toxic epithet in our political culture that the two chief candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have spent considerable time confronting the term – with Hillary Clinton correctly pointing out that it doesn’t apply to her center-left views, even as Bernie Sanders valiantly strives to remove its stigma by self-identifying as a “democratic socialist.”... Read Original Article
Published: The Good Men Project (November 5, 2015)
The past century has proved to be a golden age for unprecedented presidents and vice presidents. Before the election of 1928 (more on that in a moment), every candidate for America’s two highest offices fit into a very narrow demographic profile: Protestant, male, of northern and/or western European descent.... Read Original Article