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The Nutty Nominee

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Is The Donald really getting “nuttier”? That’s what the New York Post said last week, claiming insiders as their source. I don’t actually know any Donald Trump “insiders,” although I do know some of the beleaguered professionals who are trying to gain some measure of control over a hopelessly inexperienced candidate. But […]

To Convene Or Not To Convene – That Is The Question

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BY DAVID PERRYMAN The despondent Prince Hamlet’s soliloquy “To be or not to be … ” contemplates life and death while waiting for Ophelia, the...

Fixing What’s Broken

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BY SHARON MARTIN There are a lot of angry people in our country. Anger is one of the drivers in this year’s presidential election. Anger...

The Populist Insurgency Is Ratcheting Up

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER What an amazing Democratic primary season it was! And we now have this happy result: WE WON! “We” being the millions of young people, mad-as-hell working stiffs, independents, deep-rooted progressives, and other “outsiders” who felt The Bern and forged a new, game-changing, populist force of, by, and for grassroots Americans. True, this […]

I, Dictator … And Other Cartoons

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BY VERN TURNER Did you hear the nation breathe a collective sigh of relief when the two major party political conventions ended? I heard it, but...