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,…
Two well-known acts of the Democratic-majority Congress of 2009-2010 have begun to pay off – literally – for Americans. One is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB…