Bernie Sanders

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VICE
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Already Breaking the Rules
VICE - Zeeshan Aleem
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won’t be sworn into Congress for a couple of months, but she’s already shaking it up. Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the fiery Democratic Socialist from the Bronx, toppled
AlJazeera
Midterm Elections
What if Donald Trump is what America is all about?
AlJazeera - Hamid Dabashi
There is a widely accepted idea among some Americans that Trump does not reflect American values. They are wrong. In an erudite and timely piece for the New York Times, published just a few days before
The Atlantic
Midterm Elections
There Is No Progressive Majority in America
The Atlantic - David Frum
“Anti-left” still beats “anti-Trump” in Texas, Georgia, and Florida, and in many other places besides. As the mail-in votes are counted and the recounts finished, the Democratic advantage in the 2018 grows
Fortune
Retail
Bernie Sanders Dangles a New Incentive to Get Walmart to Pay $15 Minimum Wage: Stock Buybacks
Fortune - Lucas Laursen
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is announcing a bill on Thursday that would force big companies to pay their lowest-earning workers before shareholders. …
Liberal View
The Blue Wave Keeps Rolling On
progressive.org - by Ruth Conniff
Angry white men know their days are numbered. Even as Republicans tried to pre-empt the recounts in Florida and Georgia with baseless accusations of …
Princeton University
Let's Not Tax Colleges To Pay For College Tuition
realclearmarkets.com - Kirsten Wegner
Imagine this: free college tuition for everyone, and all we have to do is impose a tiny tax on big-money financial institutions when they buy and …
The Inquisitr
Al Sharpton
Bernie Sanders Calls Trump A Racist Bigot, Sexist, Bigot
The Inquisitr - Kristine Lofgren
"Mr. Trump, we are not going backwards, we are going forward," he said. Senator Bernie Sanders didn’t hold back at a speech on Wednesday, lashing out …
Rolling Stone
U.S. Politics
Amazon’s Long Game Is Clearer Than Ever
Rolling Stone - Matt Taibbi
Who better to trumpet the virtues of this job-creating, capital-investing deal than the richest person in modern history, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos? He …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
New York's corporate welfare for Amazon enrages the Koch Brothers, Bernie Sanders, Tucker Carlson, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow
Amazon's new headquarters will be split between northern Virginia and parts of Queens, New York, and will net the company billions in corporate …
Dental Care
How U.S. seniors on Medicare can bridge the gap in dental insurance
investing.com - By Mark Miller
CHICAGO (Reuters) - During a recent visit to my dentist, we got talking about his frustrations with Medicare. “It’s amazing - they have managed to …
Guardian US
Women's News
Nancy Pelosi hints sexism could be factor in leadership challenge – live
Guardian US - Erin Durkin in New York
• House Democratic leader says she has ‘overwhelming support’ from party • Pelosi’s message to challengers: ‘Come on in, the water’s warm’ • Sign up for the morning US briefing 7.13pm GMT At least one
Women's News
Trump Has Little Support For 2020 Re-Election Bid, Poll Finds
dailywire.com - Joseph Curl
President Trump brags that we will defeat all comers in his re-election bid in 2020, but a new poll shows it might be harder than he thinks. Fewer …
CNN
Democratic Party
Please, Hillary, don't do it
CNN - By Bradley Honan and Arick Wierson
(CNN) — It was bound to happen. Somehow, some way, sooner or later -- we all knew it was coming. Hillary Clinton's name was going to re-emerge as a possible presidential contender for 2020. A recent opinion
Insurance Industry
No Public Option — We Want Medicare for All
realclearpolicy.com - Tim Higginbotham
Bernie Sanders sealed Medicare for All's place in the popular imagination with his 2016 presidential run. Ever since, its popularity has continued to …
Financial Services
Waters backs 'steady, experienced' Pelosi for speaker
thehill.com - Sylvan Lane
Rep. Maxine WatersMaxine Moore WatersOn The Money: Trump, Senate leaders to huddle on border wall funding | Fed bank regulator walks tightrope on …
TechCrunch
Taxes
New York politicians push back on Amazon HQ2 plans
TechCrunch - Brian Heater
Amazon’s HQ2 process was bound to polarize (though I do enjoy a good dueling op-ed on these pages) no matter how it landed. But the decision to set up shop in New York City is likely ruffling more feathers
CNBC
Minimum Wage
Bernie Sanders targets Walmart, calls for $15 minimum wage
CNBC
CNBC’s Ylan Mui reports on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ recent push to get Walmart to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour.
National Review
Hillary Clinton
The Election’s Lesson for Democrats: Don’t Nominate Hillary Clinton
National Review - Michael Brendan Dougherty
The rest will mostly take care of itself. Political consultant Mark Penn wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Hillary Clinton not only will run for …
The New York Times
U.S. Politics
Nancy Pelosi Says She Has the Votes to Become House Speaker
The New York Times - By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON — Representative Nancy Pelosi asserted Thursday that she has enough support among her colleagues to become the next speaker of the House, as the first hint of opposition emerged from an Ohio
The Inquisitr
Democratic Party
With Win In Maine Race, Democrats Now Control All 21 House Seats In New England, Republicans Have Zero
The Inquisitr - Chris Walker
The states that comprise the region of the country known as “New England” are known to be reliable Democratic Party strongholds. Following the …
Fight for $15
Why Every Democrat In Congress Should Support Bernie Sanders’ $15 Minimum Wage Bill
commondreams.org - www.commondreams.org
Brittany Williamson is 24 and lives in Detroit, the poorest big city in the United States. Over the past three years, she has worked two—and …
The Wall Street Journal.
Opinion
Capitalism: Still Working
The Wall Street Journal. - James Freeman
So far so good with the ongoing U.S. experiment in expanded economic liberty. Americans are confident about their financial prospects and enjoying a strong jobs market. And it shows. The Journal’s Harriet
Salon
Democratic Party
Yes, the campaign to take down Nancy Pelosi is sexist — not to mention a terrible idea
Salon - Amanda Marcotte
Marcia Fudge; Nancy Pelosi; Seth Moulton (AP/Getty/Salon) Efforts to take out Pelosi aren’t progressive, but backward. She’s earned the speaker’s gavel the hard way November 15, 2018 7:00pm (UTC) There
North Carolina
My Criminal Record Kept Me Poor For 30 Years. A New Law Will Finally Let Me Move On.
talkpoverty.org - November 15, 2018 | Donna Henderson
North Carolina is a particularly notable victory because it is both a swing state and a “right to work state,” which means workers do not have to pay …
AOL
Stormy Daniels
Stormy Daniels says she'll dump Michael Avenatti as her lawyer if the abuse allegations against him are true
AOL - Jacob Shamsian
• Adult film star Stormy Daniels said she'll fire her attorney Michael Avenatti if the domestic abuse allegations against him prove true.• Avenatti was arrested on suspicion of domestic abuse on Wednesday.
U.S. Politics
'Democratic socialists' really need to learn more about socialism
washingtonexaminer.com - www.washingtonexaminer.com
With a growing number of politicians self-identifying as socialists, and two — New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Detroit's Rashida Tlaib — …
The Guardian
Opinion (UK)
Big Oil v the planet is the fight of our lives. Democrats must choose a side
The Guardian - David Sirota
The world’s leading scientists issued a report warning of total planetary dystopia unless we take immediate steps to seriously reduce carbon emissions. Then, oil and gas corporations dumped millions of
The Inquisitr
U.S. Secretary of Defense
Pentagon Audit Failure Not Surprising To Deputy Defense Secretary, ‘We Never Expected To Pass’
The Inquisitr - Kristine Lofgren
Pentagon fails its first ever audit. Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan says that he isn’t surprised that the Pentagon failed its first …
The Wall Street Journal.
Labor Economics
The Dangerous Fantasy of a ‘Jobs Guarantee’
The Wall Street Journal. - Max Gulker
The latest progressive brainstorm would upend the labor market and be impossible to administer. Forget for a moment about “Medicare for All.” A proposal is gaining steam on the left that would overhaul
Health Care
Health Care Needs Free-Market Reform, Not Single-Payer
realclearhealth.com - Justin Haskins
In the months leading up to the 2018 election, Democrats shifted their focus to health care, accusing Republican candidates of secretly plotting to …