by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 24, 2020 | • Politics, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, The 2020 Presidential Race
Fmr. NSC director calls for Defense Production Act to be implemented Dr. Luciana Borio and Beth Cameron discuss the impact of Trump’s dismantling of the NSC pandemic unit. Cameron served at the NSC under President...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 10, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats, The Republicans
The Moderate Middle Is A Myth Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Independent voters will decide the election. Or better yet: Moderate voters will decide the election. Or, wait for it … If Democrats can move to the middle, they will win in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 4, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Column: Bernie Sanders isn’t going to destroy the Democratic Party. He just might save it After Bernie Sanders led the popular vote in the Iowa caucuses, the emails started trickling in. Alarmed Democrats, and excited Republicans, saw in Sanders a ghost that has...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Noam Chomsky: “The Democrats abandoned the working class decades ago” Building on a friendship initiated in Sandinista Nicaragua of the 1980s, Wallace Shawn – a committed activist but someone who is best known as an accomplished dramatist and actor...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
The Differences Between Warren and Sanders Matter Read: Team Bernie isn’t fazed by the bros As a presidential candidate, Sanders has somewhat tempered his radicalism. When he talks about his political forerunners, he identifies more strongly with Franklin D....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
After Bernie Sanders’ landslide Nevada win, it’s time for Democrats to unite behind him | Nathan Robinson It was a landslide. Bernie Sanders had been expected to win the Nevada caucuses, but not like this. With just 4% of the vote in, news organizations...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 24, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
When Will Moderates Learn Their Lesson? If centrists can’t move past their doctrine and recognize when their candidates are unelectable, then how will Democrats ever beat Trump? The two major policy pitches for the Democratic nominee for president of the United...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 16, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
…Carville closes on the note that has defined liberal electoral politics for nearly three decades—an obsession with “swing voters” that always leads to the same conclusion: to win, move to the right. If you don’t win, keep moving further right until you do. It...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 16, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, The 2020 Presidential Race
Bernie Sanders will be good for American economy, top economist says after Goldman Sachs attack Bernie Sanders’ economic policies would be good for the American economy, according to a new book by a renowned economist.French economist Thomas Piketty said history...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 15, 2020 | • Politics, Tax Policy, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits? The United States’ annual budget deficit is set to reach nearly $1 trillion this year, more than four percent of GDP and up from $585 billion in 2016. As a result of the continuing shortfall, over the next decade, the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 15, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Feb. 13, 2020 Opinion | Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist Maybe Buttigieg is unaware of the growing consensus among mainstream economists that the deficit hysteria of seven or eight years ago was greatly overblown. Last year the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 13, 2020 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Democrats
