Bernie Sanders Is Not Dropping Out Tonight. Rep. Debbie Dingell's Sitdown Speech. What Would It Take for Donald Trump to Lose Your Vote? Boogie Blues on a Liverpool Street. John Oliver | Brexit.
As we head toward the Democratic National Convention, I often hear the question, "What does Bernie want?" Wrong question. The right question is what the 12 million Americans who voted for a political revolution want.
Despite hyped-up media accounts, Bernie-or-Bust was just one of many directions explored in Chicago.
Trump's strategy and campaign is to appeal to majority white, working class voters who have economic anxiety and fear of demographic change. Trump's candidacy viewed in the context of historical continuity - nativism is a primary political discourse in American history. Trump has shown us that it is just as powerful now as in the 1850s or the 1920s. Indeed, "Make America Great Again" recalls the 1920s Ku Klux Klan's appeal for "100% Americanism."
Orlando Attack on LGBT, Puerto Rican and Latin communities; Thank You Bernie Sanders, Now, What Next?; Ending Mass Incarceration; Eliminating White Supremacy; Black-Palestinian Solidarity; U.S. Genocide Against Native Americans; Medicare for All; Demand Release of Homa Hoodfar; Victor Jara's Murderer to Face Charges; Bill Gates Gets Clucked in Bolivia;
Announcements: Whitney Retrospective of photographer Danny Lyon; Activism in New York - book talk.
Sanders has been clear all along: He’s building a movement for radical change. Clinton won the nomination. She gets to choose whether to embrace that movement or ignore it, whether to adopt that platform or avoid it, whether to change the party or maintain the old order.
You’ve inspired millions of us to get involved in politics – and to fight the most important and basic of all fights on which all else depends: to reclaim our economy and democracy from the moneyed interests. Thank you, Bernie.
Ben Jealous gives a fiery introduction to Bernie Sanders at a rally at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC before the final primary on Tuesday.
Cenk Uygur reports on the Oval Office meeting between Bernie Sanders and President Obama and where the Sanders campaign is headed.
The Democratic establishment wants Sanders and his supporters to report for duty and line up behind Clinton — to put aside their dreams and enlist. Sanders and his supporters are building a political movement both inside and outside the Democratic Party. They have their own agenda. But while this country needs change far more profound than anything Clinton champions, defeating Trump is essential to the progress of that movement.
Spread the word