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Can Bernie Sanders Really Win the Nomination?

Posted March 28th, 2016 at 11:05 am (UTC-5)
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Sanders’s resurgence raises two important questions: Does he have a realistic chance of defying the punditry and snatching the nomination? And, even if he doesn’t ultimately win, how will Clinton and the Democratic Party deal with him and his supporters?

The Most Pragmatic Way to Fix American Democracy

Posted January 29th, 2016 at 1:01 pm (UTC-5)
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Inequality has reached levels last seen in the era of the “robber barons” in the 1890s. The only truly pragmatic way of reversing this state of affairs is through a “political revolution” that mobilizes millions of Americans.

Photo Essay: President Barack Obama

Posted January 12th, 2016 at 5:15 pm (UTC-5)
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America’s first African-American president begins winding down the last year of his second term after delivering his final State of the Union speech. Here’s a look back.

War Is Interested in You

Posted November 17th, 2015 at 10:32 am (UTC-5)
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The American-led experiment meant to determine whether the Western world could live with the existence of the virulent Islamic State ended… when at least eight men armed with automatic weapons and suicide belts conducted one of the most daring and coordinated attacks on a Western target the world has seen in over a decade.