A year before he was to make his first of five runs for The White House under the banner of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, Eugene V. Debs penned an article for the International Socialist Review titled, “The… Read More ›
Bernie Sanders
Black Votes Matter: Why Bernie Sanders Needs To Leave His Economic Comfort Zone & Tackle Racial Injustice
Head over to Bernie Sanders’s campaign website and you will find the unbridled economic populism of the first self-proclaimed socialist this side of Eugene V. Debs to have a legitimate shot at making waves in a presidential election. In his, “On… Read More ›
It’s Not Always Greener On The Other Side: Jill Stein & The Fight For Third Party Relevance in 2016
If there is truth in the old saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, it may be fast approaching the time that progressives in the United States need to file a… Read More ›
Bowling For Presidents: How College Football Can Help Sort Out The Field For The 2016 Election
Boys and girls, we have entered very strange air as of late. The mid-term elections are over. The dumpster fire that was the 113th Congress is pretty much finished. And, as 2014 fades into 2015, the first presidential rumblings for… Read More ›
With Congress, It’s Never Too Early To Hand Out The Hardware
In retrospect, I feel as though the failure of Mitt Romney’s campaign could be fully captured in the “impromptu” football game he organized in Florida between members of his staff and the media about two weeks before election day.1 On… Read More ›