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Follow up on Clinton

February 4, 2016

Let me be brief. One of the fascinations in the current presidential election campaign is that both parties are being challenged by relative outsiders. Let’s set aside just how ‘outside’ some of the challengers are, and focus on why this challenge is getting the traction it is. From my point of view it is quite […]

Politics / democracy, Hillary Clinton, Paul Krugman, plutocracy, Sanders /

Post-Iowa

February 2, 2016

So where are we? Nowhere further forward. Except, perhaps, that we now know about half of the Democrats in Iowa think Clinton is an extension rather than a repudiation of the past. And I think that matters. The time has come for us all to assess just where we are. There is way too much […]

Politics / democracy, elections, Paul Krugman, plutocracy, Sanders /

An Actual Election?

February 1, 2016

Well kind of. If you count a caucus as an election. So here we go, the 2016 presidential election gets under way with something more than hyperbolic news reporting. Sometime in the next twenty-four hours we will have hyperbolic reporting tinged with actual voter information. All the preamble, which feels as if it began in […]

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