Last week, you could have been forgiven for thinking that the only political activity going on in the UK was #traingate. The most important story in the news was about whether a man sat down on a...
Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe has covered a myriad of topics in her work, ranging from “trickle-down feminism” to tenants’ rights to popular culture—and her first book, Necessary Trouble,...
I write primarily to Jill Stein voters. I understand the festering resentments and the mistrust and downright hatred for Hillary Clinton. I understand your feelings of moral outrage and the need to...
We’ve all seen the numbers, the horrendous “favorability” and “likability.” News commentators keep telling us that this year we have the choice between the two most loathed presidential...
Yes. Americans living abroad can vote for the President of the United States of America. Yes. Americans living abroad can, and did, vote in the presidential primaries. Yes. Americans living abroad...
Yesterday, a grown man got into a fight with a baby. This wouldn't be a particularly newsworthy event, but for this: The grown man was a presidential candidate from a major US party. During an event...
How representative is the electoral system of representative democracy? Evidence shows that voter turnout in established democracies has taken a slump since the '80s. Voter apathy is directly...
So… Tim Kaine, I guess. Huh. Hillary Clinton’s VP pick, the matter of speculation, excitement and fervid political fan-fiction for months, has turned out to be the mother of all disappointing...
Last night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump formally accepted his party's nomination in an interminable speech that incorporated fascist demagoguery and outright lies. It far...
Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth invited Theresa May to become the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Our second female Prime Minister should perhaps be something to celebrate but, on its own, the fact that...
