By Juan Cole — Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, alleged on Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s policies are responsible for the ‘rise and expansion of ISIS throughout the Middle East.’
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By Robert Reich — The recent kerfluffle about Bernie Sanders purportedly not knowing how to bust up the big banks says far more about the threat Sanders poses to the Democratic establishment and its Wall Street wing than it does about the candidate himself.
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By Sarah Smith / ProPublica —
Clinton has been in the public eye for four decades — and there have been investigative stories about her for nearly as long.
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By Juan Cole — Bernie Sanders is being attacked for comments on the Middle East in his interview with the editorial board of The New York Daily News, but all he did was restate current U.S. government policy.
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As expected, Sanders won the Wyoming vote Saturday, by a double-digit margin with 96 percent of precincts reporting.
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In the wake of the Panama Papers leak, a pending U.S. Treasury rule to discourage the rich from avoiding taxes could in fact enable them to do so, experts say. Release of the new provision is expected soon.
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Fair’s “candid and chilling new book” is “at once an agonized confession of his own complicity as an interrogator at Abu Ghraib and an indictment of the system that enabled and tried to justify torture,” writes Michiko Kakutani at The New York Times.
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Scared that Sanders would raise your taxes? Many people are, especially after reading what The Nation describes as Vox’s “wildly misleading” calculator of income taxes under the policies of various presidential candidates.
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Reporters can’t tell you what Hillary Clinton said at a fundraiser for wealthy donors in Denver on Thursday because her campaign apparently employed a noise-blocking machine that prevented anyone outside the grounds from hearing.
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“You don’t hire a woman like you hire a car. Our society should no longer tolerate it,” explained the head of the Socialist group in the French Parliament.
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New York’s may be the most important primary of the presidential election, and local journalists and activists are responding by organizing an independent media campaign to counter biased reporting about the Democratic candidates.
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The international whistleblowing organization claims the U.S. Agency for International Development and American hedge fund billionaire George Soros funded the attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin that was part of the Panama Papers expose this week.
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Rank-and-file Democrats are virtually split between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton nationwide, according to a new PRRI / The Atlantic poll.
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An U.S. Air Force member shot his commander in an apparent murder-suicide on Friday at an Air Force base in San Antonio, a senior U.S. official said.
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In the new exhortation, the pontiff tells leaders of the church to be nurturing pastors rather than rigid enforcers of church doctrine.
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By Carlos Lozada —
“Instead of warriors or workers, we are more than ever before consumers,” a new book declares. “In the rich world—and in the developing world increasingly, too—identities, politics, the economy and the environment are crucially shaped by what and how we consume.”
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By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
Patterns in surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean could give the American Midwest and East Coast 50 days’ notice to prepare for dangerous spells of extreme heat.
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The following excerpt from Robert Scheer’s book “The Great American Stickup” details the perversion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and is particularly relevant this election season, as it explains the connection between Clinton “progressives” and the 2008 housing meltdown that impoverished millions.
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The controversy over encryption has been one of the biggest public debates of the year so far, yet the Democratic presidential candidates have been largely silent on the subject.
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John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, co-founded the Washington advocacy company linked to a Russian bank named in the leaks.
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