Fair and reliable elections, an informed citizenry, wide participation in governance — these are cornerstones of democracy. But the recent election in the U.S.A. has pointed out serious cracks in those cornerstones. …
Hillary Clinton topped Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. But Sanders got 46% of the pledged delegates, and brought out great enthusiastic throngs to back him and his policies. He then took that power to the Democratic…
The last of the primaries has occurred, and the Bernie Sanders campaign has, practically speaking, fallen short of one of its aims — to put Sanders in the White House. But the campaign made a pretty good swipe at it,…
(Satire.) At the height of a campaign season, where differences between supporters of this candidate and that are sharpened, and things are said and written that may later be regretted, it is natural to look for a unity candidate — someone that could bring the country together. …
From the time Bernie Sanders threw his hat in the ring, and announced a “political revolution” — a movement to replace the USA’s legalized bribery system with revitalized democracy — various cold water brigades have been trying to douse his…