Tag: Bernie Sanders

  • Bloomberg Won’t Win. Sanders Could.

    Bloomberg Won’t Win. Sanders Could.

    Joe Biden seems to think that Democrats are really well positioned for 2020, recently arguing “We could run Mickey Mouse against this president and have a shot.” The rest of us aren’t so sure: According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, a plurality (48%) of Americans want Trump to be unseated in 2020. Yet…

  • Securitization Vs. Social Justice

    Securitization Vs. Social Justice

    It must have felt fresh the first time a political figure equated civil rights with national-security crises. Perhaps it was when Frederick Douglass told Abraham Lincoln that by keeping the Union Army all white, he was “fighting rebels with only one arm,” or more recently when advocates for women’s rights competed for who was quicker…

  • Who Cares About Bernie Sanders’ Historic Candidacy?

    Who Cares About Bernie Sanders’ Historic Candidacy?

    In March 2016, the Green Party nominated Dr. Jill Stein as their candidate for President of the United States. They have had female vice-presidential nominees on every single ticket since 1996, and ran all-female tickets in 2008 and 2012. But unfortunately, the highest the Green Party has ever performed in a general election was in…

  • Hillary Clinton Is No Friend of Black Empowerment

    Hillary Clinton Is No Friend of Black Empowerment

    As an African American, I have struggled to understand why so many of brothers and sisters seem to prefer Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Some have argued that black people are terrified at the prospect of a Trump presidency, and so they rally around Clinton under the belief that she is more electable in the…

  • Bernie Sanders is more electable than Hillary Clinton

    Bernie Sanders is more electable than Hillary Clinton

    Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States, and he will have the Democratic National Committee to thank for it. Much has been made of the “math” of the Democratic nomination, and how it favors Hillary Clinton—in large part due to her huge lead in unpledged “superdelegates” (whose decision will determine…