Politics

Bernie Sanders and America’s Capitalist Realism About Migration

Yesterday, Bernie Sanders reiterated a goofy statement that he’s been saying for a long time. He said “If you open the borders, there’s a lot of poverty in this world, and you’re going to have people from all over the…

Reflections on Years Lost in Personal Political Social Media

After writing my last article, where I used the podcast “Red Scare” as a jumping-off point to talk about gender and media, I listened to their latest episode, where they react to their haters, and it was even meaner than I…

What Vox Gets Right and Wrong About Democrats and Foreign Policy

A recent Vox.com article entitled “Why Democrats have no foreign policy ideas” was shared on social media by many people who don’t normally share Vox articles, let alone articles by author Zack Beauchamp, most famous…

Three Types of Left-leaning Writers to Take with a Grain of Salt

Reading about politics from a chair is often maligned, despite being something that many of us do and will keep doing. The fact is, most of us do engage with politics largely by consuming political media. Whether you…

The Only Democrat Who Respects Conservatism

There’s a seat at Bernie’s table for conservatives…

Voter Disorientation in New York

What happened in the New York primary may not be best described as voter suppression, but it was voter disorientation.

On the now-famous New York ballots for Tuesday’s presidential primary, voters were instructed to select six delegates.