[aggregation-styles] Washington Examiner As the Democratic Party coalesces around 2020 candidate Joe Biden as an alternative to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, onlookers have taken it for granted that the former vice president represents a “moderate” Democratic option. While this is true, it’s only due to the radical extent of Sanders’s...
Five Americans Living in Social Democratic Norway Explain Why Bernie Sanders Is So Appealing
[aggregation-styles] Common Dreams We are five Americans living in social democratic Norway. We think that our experiences provide a unique perspective as to why it is that so many Americans so strongly support the reforms called for by the platform of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Our time in Norway also helps...
Iran Has Far More Coronavirus Cases Than It Is Letting On
[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic You are standing before a huge barrel of apples. You can’t see the apples, but you can reach in and pick them out. Most are delicious, but a very small number of them are rotten—just about one in 12,000, your friend assures you. You reach in blindly...
How the Senate Paved the Way for Coronavirus Profiteering, and How Congress Could Undo It
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept Before a vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic is within view, the Trump administration has already walked back its initial refusal to promise that any remedy would be affordable to the general public. “We can’t control that price because we need the private sector to invest,” Alex...
How the Populist Right Is Exploiting Coronavirus
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Medical experts are trying to map out the health effects of coronavirus. Economists are estimating its economic fallout. Yet predicting its broader political consequences is likely to be the biggest challenge of all. The historian William McNeill once tried to understand why the natives of...
Bernie Sanders Called AIPAC a Platform for ‘Bigotry.’ The Group Is Proving His Point.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Bernie Sanders was right to skip AIPAC. The current front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination would be the first Jewish president. He once lived in Israel. But he refused to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference this week because, he said, the...
Editorial: California Housing Prices Are Too Damn High. Cities Can Help Change That If They Want to
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription The cost of building new housing in California is too damn high. And one reason is all the pricey development fees layered on new apartments, single-family homes and even affordable housing projects. Cities throughout the state collect an assortment of fees from builders to raise...
Warren Buffett: This Is Your 1 Greatest Measure of Success in Life
[aggregation-styles] CNBC Make It Warren Buffett is no doubt one of the few business icons who can deliver the gift of wisdom and truth when we need it most. And those truths, when you really stop and consider them, are always spot-on. In her biography of Buffett, “The Snowball: Warren...
Bernie Sanders’ Scandinavian Fantasy
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says that his proposals “are not radical,” pointing again and again to countries in Northern Europe such as Denmark, Sweden and Norway as examples of the kind of economic system he wants to bring to the United States. The image he...
'AIPAC and All Pro-Israel Leaders Must Oppose Netanyahu’s Disastrous Settlement Plans In And Around East Jerusalem'
[aggregation-styles] J Street J Street calls on the leadership of AIPAC and of the entire American pro-Israel movement to join us in opposing Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plans to build thousands upon thousands of units of new housing in and around East Jerusalem. Announcing these projects — specifically in this most...
