John Boehner: Ted Cruz Is ‘Lucifer in the Flesh,’ ‘You Can Call Me Boner’
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner took a break from his golf-course retirement to open up about the state of our nation’s politics in a forum at Stanford University Wednesday. Boehner — whose term as speaker was cut short by a House coup perpetrated by radical Republicans in his ranks…
The Line That May Have Won Hillary Clinton the Nomination
Maybe it’s too early for post-mortems. But the results the other night seemingly all but settled the Democratic primary race, which may have turned on a single moment. Earlier this year, at a union rally in Henderson, Nevada, Hillary Clinton introduced a new theme in her stump speeches. “If we broke up…
Carly Fiorina: The Anti-Woman Woman Ted Cruz Doesn’t Need
On Tuesday, Donald Trump swept all five Republican presidential primaries. The next day, Ted Cruz, who now cannot enter the Republican National Convention as a first-ballot winner without somehow impossibly winning 104 percent of the remaining primary delegates, named Carly Fiorina as his running mate. There’s an indispensable Simpsons moment where Homer’s brain says,…
How Picking Carly Fiorina as VP Could Backfire for Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz announced Wednesday afternoon that if he wins the GOP nomination, he’ll ask his former primary rival Carly Fiorina to be his running mate. “After a great deal of consideration and prayer, I have come to the conclusion that if I am nominated to be president of the United States that I…
If Donald Trump Were a Woman, He’d Have Zero Percent of the Vote
Asked about Hillary Clinton pulling off another big victory Tuesday evening, winning four out of five primary states against Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump doubled down on his previous comments that Clinton’s success is not about her experience or achievements, but rather her gender. “If Hillary Clinton were a man, I…
WTF Happened on Super Tuesday IV
It doesn’t really matter whether you pronounce it “ace-la,” “ah-sale-lah,” “ass-a-la,” “ack-a-la,” “ah-sell-ya,” “a-kel-la” or “a-seal-ia” because no one called it the “Acela primary” anyway. Super Tuesday IV, the latest in increasingly less super string of Tuesdays, was a fairly predictable installment in this series. Donald Trump swept Tuesday’s contests in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania…
Watch Cartoon Donald Trump Admit Campaign ‘Charade’ on ‘Colbert’
It’s easy to question whether Donald Trump is Punk-ing the Republican party, one controversial soundbite and hostile rally at a time. A cartoon version of the GOP candidate confirmed the theory on Tuesday’s Late Show, telling Stephen Colbert that his actions were part of one massive “long con.” “A lot of Republicans fear…
Bernie Sanders Has a Superdelegate Problem
There was a stretch of days and weeks in the not-too-distant past during which Bernie Sanders was winning primary after caucus after primary, but he still seemed unable to cut into Hillary Clinton’s lead in any meaningful way. Clinton had vaulted far ahead of the Vermont Senator with strong showings in…
What’s the Future of Bernie Sanders’ Political Revolution?
Had you closed your eyes last Sunday in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, you might have thought you were five years and a half-hour train ride away, occupying lower Manhattan for the 99 percent. Endorsing Bernie Sanders, New York City council member Jumaane Williams — a Black Lives Matter activist and former…
What Donald Trump’s Political Donations Reveal About Him
Donald Trump’s recent campaign speeches have the tenor of a scorned child, with much ranting and raving about the “rigged” nomination process. “Little Marco, his State Chairman, & their minions are working overtime-trying to rig the vote,” Trump tweeted in March. A few weeks ago, griping about losing Colorado’s delegate race,…
John Kasich Botched Getting Into Oregon Voters’ Guide
Ted Cruz and John Kasich on Sunday night released a pair of statements about their new, coordinated effort to derail Donald Trump from cobbling together the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the Republican nomination on the convention’s first ballot. Cruz will focus resources on Indiana, where polls show he…
Filmmaker Josh Fox on Being Team Bernie and Fighting Climate Change Despair
Activist-filmmaker Josh Fox isn’t resting on his laurels. Or on anything, anywhere, ever. He doesn’t seem quite capable of rest. When I arrive at his home office a stone’s throw from the Brooklyn Navy Yard — the location of New York’s Democratic debate earlier this month — it is one…
Hear Prince and the Time’s 1990 Song About Donald Trump
Among Prince’s many interesting qualities was the fact that he never used his celebrity to advance his political views — whatever those might have been. He didn’t vote, as he told PBS’s Tavis Smiley in 2008, and he refused to participate in efforts even as uncontroversial as the “We Are the World” fundraiser to…
Alabama Shakes on N. Carolina ‘Bathroom Bill’: ‘It Was Wrong’
Grammy Award-winning rock band Alabama Shakes are the latest musical act to speak out on North Carolina’s controversial HB2 law, commonly referred to as the “bathroom bill.” “I think it was wrong what the lawmakers did,” singer Brittany Howard said in a music festival podcast interview for CRN International. Speaking about the LGBT community, Howard…
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