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The New Generation Gap

Joseph E. Stiglitz Project Syndicate
The lives of both old and young, as they are now lived, are different. Their pasts are different, and so are their prospects.

Republican Tax Plan

Either Trump or Cruz's tax plan would be the biggest redistribution of wealth - upward - in the history of the United States.

It Ain't Over: New Poll Shows Sanders and Clinton Tied Nationally

Deirdre Fulton Common Dreams
"It comes down to this: Bernie Sanders is the one Democrats see as looking out for them—meaning he will build a stronger middle class at the expense of Wall Street. They trust him to do it. In the end, Hillary Clinton has a trust problem."

Not a Muse

Louise Robertson BlazeVOX
Love, sex, and feminism intertwine in Ohio poet Louise Robertson's wry poetic observations.

The West Weighs In; Arizona Voting Suppression Scandal

Robert Borosage; Ari Berman
Tuesday voters flooded to the polls and caucuses in Arizona, Idaho and Utah. Hillary Clinton won Arizona, but Sanders gained in the delegate count by swamping her in the Idaho and Utah caucuses, generating turnouts that overwhelmed caucus sites. Arizona lines were so long because election officials in Phoenix's Maricopa County, the largest in the state, reduced the number of polling places by 70 percent from 2012 to 2016, to just one polling place per every 21,000 voters