Mar 22, 2016 | Democrats, Elections - Presidential (2016), Political Parties, President Obama
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,...
Mar 2, 2016 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Political Parties
Published: Salon (March 2, 2016) The Super Tuesday results are in. On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won a fierce battle over Senator Bernie Sanders, taking home a majority of delegates in seven states compared to her rival’s four. In...
Feb 11, 2016 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Jewish Experiences, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues
Published: Salon (February 11, 2016) With his New Hampshire primary victory now in the books, Bernie Sanders has done more than simply guarantee that Hillary Clinton won’t have a free ride to the Democratic nomination. Indeed, even if Clinton ultimately bests Sanders...
Jan 31, 2016 | Conservativism, Democrats, Elections - Presidential (2016), Extremism, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: Alternet (January 31, 2016), Salon (January 31, 2016), The Good Men Project (January 21, 2016) As the 2016 presidential election gathers steam, it’s tempting to compare the Bernie Sanders surge among Democrats with the Donald Trump phenomenon among...
Dec 20, 2015 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Immigration, 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...
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...
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...
Nov 17, 2015 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Political Parties
Published: The Good Men Project (November 17, 2015) The most recent Democratic presidential debate was the lowest rated of the six held by either party this election cycle, drawing in only 8.55 million viewers. This may seem like bad news for the Democrats, but the...
Nov 12, 2015 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Elections - Presidential (2016), Gender and Sexism, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties
Published: Salon (November 12, 2015) The inevitable has finally happened: Bernie Sanders supporters are beginning to openly proclaim that, if Hillary Clinton defeats their champion in the upcoming Democratic presidential primaries, they will not support her in the...
Nov 3, 2015 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), History, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: The Good Men Project (November 3, 2015) Politics is usually pretty weird, but the presidential election shaping up right now is definitely an outlier even by American standards. There has to be a deeper significance in the fact that such an unusual election...