Politics Archive
Archives for November 2015
He’s an outlier, but anti-Islam politics is on the rise, and it’s dangerous.
21 transgender women have been killed this year — and there could be many more deaths.
The skeptics are wrong. Stronger parties are not the solution to polarization. And small donors are not going to make politics worse.
Giving poor people cash is a pretty great idea.
Bhaskar Sunkara says Sanders’s big socialism speech was “a decent start, and not far enough.”
A shocking statistic.
Understanding the terrorism threat in France and Belgium.
He called black people “an ignorant and inferior race,” and it gets worse.
Bernie Sanders’ socialism speech; VW is running out of time to fix 480,000 cars; and after 20 years, the FDA approves genetically-modified fish.
It even made him “grateful for the internet.”
In FDR’s time, liberals and socialists were allies. Bernie wants to bring that back.
“Our response must begin with an understanding of past mistakes.”
A bill that would require three top government officials to personally sign off on every single Syrian refugee coming to the US just passed the House — with a veto-proof majority.
“Almost everything [FDR] proposed was called ‘socialist.’”
Here are some suggestions for what NBC can do. Number one? Jimmy Fallon lip-sync battle.