Image of Nordic flags by miguelb This week, the advocacy organization Reporters Without Borders released its 2020 World Press Freedoms Index. The index ranks the world’s nations and some territories on the freedom journalists have to report on what is happening in their countries and to challenge power. At the top of list: Norway, Finland, […]
Following her primary victory in New York this week, Hillary Clinton reached out to Bernie Sanders’ voters: To all the people who supported Sen. Sanders, I believe there is much more that unites us than divides us. I believe this is true. On a great many issues, Clinton lines up with Sanders just enough that I’m […]
While still conceivable after New York, Bernie Sanders’ chances of winning the Democratic primary have now become highly improbable. Improbable, but not impossible. And for that reason alone I think he should stay in the race. (For the record, this is exactly what Hillary Clinton did in 2008. She stuck it out until June of […]
U.S. politics seems to be at pivotal moment in which the traditional political duopoly is being openly questioned. Over the objections of party leaders, Donald Trump is running away with the Republican nomination by using authoritarian appeals to attract new and old nativist, xenophobic supporters. Bernie Sanders is activating many new, young voters and others […]
Bill Poorman 