In a presidential election characterized by dissatisfaction with the status quo, why are third party candidates silent on HIV? ——– What is the victory of a third party candidate in a presidential election? Surely, the simplest answer is that victory… Read More ›
Green Party
Fear and Loathing (But Mostly Just Fear) At The RNC on Opening Night
It is easy to look at the discordant yammerings of the speakers on the first night of the Republican National Convention and lose yourself in the inherent absurdity and grotesqueness of it all. From the attempts to paint undocumented immigrants… 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 ›
Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: Progressive Third Party Politics in West Virginia
It was all Nader’s fault. Never mind the butterfly ballots and the hanging chads. Forget about Palm Beach County’s sudden and accidental infatuation with Pat Buchanan(1) and Katherine Harris’s purging of thousands of legitimate black Floridians from the voter rolls… Read More ›
Jill Stein: Activism, Populism and a Bid for The White House
If you can’t take the hate, get out of the convention. You might as well put that bad boy in Poor Richard’s Almanack because it’s the God’s honest truth. At least it is for me. I couldn’t force myself to… Read More ›
Ain’t No Party Like a Third Party
“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America… Read More ›