Opinion

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Mexico is our neighbor, not the enemy

We don't need a wall; we need a bridge. We are neighbors, bound together by geography and by history.

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The Sanders campaign, political revolution, and the 2016 elections

Political boundaries are being eclipsed and thinking reshaped. Seeds of change are being sown and foundations are being laid for deeper-going changes.

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Bernie Sanders should have done better with Clyde Bellecourt’s treaty question

Sanders was asked a very important question looming in the minds of American Indian voters, and could have done much more.

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Notes on the eve of the New Hampshire primary

If you stretch out your time frame,  the results of Bernie's showing in Iowa are a big quake on the Richter scale of American politics.

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Bernie or bust?

Catchy enough, but what does it mean: two very different interpretations came to my mind.

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Hillary Clinton and the urn of ashes

Historical blindness has been much on display in the run-up to the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.

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My endorsement of Bernie Sanders

Here are excerpts from a letter by Michael Moore that appeared today. The original letter by Moore is taken from his website.

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Gun control alone can't curb violence

Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness - the dysfunction that comes from poverty.

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Don't get caught up in the media's electoral name game

Don't make the mistake of thinking that who you vote for determines what you fight for. It's not about the person. It's about the people.

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Ted Cruz is Trump on steroids

Cruz's tax proposal would hit working families, retired persons on fixed incomes and the poor very hard.

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