Hardly a week goes by without some demand for an apology populating my inbox. I have never apologized for two reasons: The usual one is that I’m not sorry. The other is that calls for an apology have become an irritating tactic in American political discourse, a kind of bullying. That doesn’t mean I haven’t […]
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Sanders: Just blame those rich folks
Bernie Sanders is the most prominent conspiracy theorist in America. He runs around the country saying that the economy is “rigged” by what he calls “the billionaire class.” Sanders doesn’t mean this metaphorically. He’s dead serious. As he put it in his speech at Liberty University a couple of months ago, our economy is “designed […]
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Trudeau and the power of ‘positive politics’
NEW YORK — Justin Trudeau’s sweeping victory in Canada could be read as one more indication that voters in the Western world are moving left — and toward populism. The last year has seen the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of Britain’s Labour Party. In the United States, Bernie Sanders, a self-professed “democratic […]
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Bernie Sanders urges ‘political revolution’ at Portland rally
PORTLAND, Maine — The 2016 election may be 16 months away, but you wouldn’t know it from the thousands of people who turned out Monday evening to cheer on Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland. What was scheduled as a town hall forum had become a full-blown rally by […]
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Bernie Sanders announces independent bid for president
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, says he will do more than simply raise progressive issues or nudge Hillary Rodham Clinton to the left. “People should not underestimate me,” Sanders told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday confirming his presidential bid. “I’ve […]