Portside

 With each primary victory—and each close call—Sanders has shown us our own strength.

Trump is P.T. Barnum with malevolence. People know on some level that they are being fooled. Nevertheless, they enjoy the anger, the bombast, the exaggeration, the canned and phony “honesty.” Trump has long operated in an arena in which most people don’t really believe what he is saying, and most people don’t care.

Last week, a Florida gun rights activist was shot in the back by her four-year-old son. How much longer will we keep participating in the collective lie that deadly weapons keep us safe?

'Let me be clear: No amount of offensive remarks will stop me from standing up to House Republicans who are bought and paid for by the big banks.'

Poet Tony Hoagland skims the skin of everyday capitalism for the rich and the poor.