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Donald Trump thinks he can win over Sanders supporters. Here’s why he’s out of his mind.

The presumptive GOP nominee tells Sean Hannity that he plans on targeting disaffected Sanders fans. Good luck, Don!

Conor Lynch Thursday, May 5, 2016 9:56 AM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump

What the left can learn from Donald Trump: Winning the working class means fixing your sales pitch

Trump's policies are a nightmare, and his message is full of hate. But the Left must learn to connect like he does

Conor Lynch Wednesday, May 4, 2016 9:57 AM UTC 0
All Salon Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

It’s time to get real about the Obama legacy: Why his economic record is much more complicated than either party wants to admit

Republicans deride the president for a largely imagined set of failures. But Democrats are overstating their praise

Conor Lynch Monday, May 2, 2016 7:20 PM UTC 0
News Barack Obama, Dem primary

Bernie is the hero of 2016: Just because he’s losing the nomination doesn’t mean he’s failed

Sanders should continue his fight to represent the interests of American workers. There's too much at stake

Conor Lynch Sunday, May 1, 2016 9:59 AM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

Stop calling them conservatives! The new GOP of Trump & Cruz is the party of nihilism

Even as unattractive a label as "conservative" is too good for the extremism of today's leading Republicans

Conor Lynch Saturday, Apr 30, 2016 4:00 PM UTC 0
News Conservatism, Donald Trump

It won’t be so easy for Hillary: Why Clinton will have to do much more to win over Bernie supporters

Clinton all but wrapped up the nomination last night. But winning over Sanders' fan base isn't a given

Conor Lynch Wednesday, Apr 27, 2016 3:24 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

Bill Clinton can’t stop screwing up: Why his latest broadside against millennials reveals an underlying problem

The 42nd president is a charming politician, but this year he's been more a liability than asset on the trail

Conor Lynch Monday, Apr 25, 2016 4:14 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton

Trump’s “reinvention” could be Hillary’s worst nightmare: Why the GOP frontrunner could do real damage

It seems like a foregone conclusion that Trump's attempt at a makeover will fail. Don't be quite so sure

Conor Lynch Monday, Apr 25, 2016 9:57 AM UTC 0
News Dem primary, Donald Trump

Bernie’s most valuable lesson: The Democratic Party does not represent the values of progressive Americans

Sanders has laid bare for all to see the hypocrisy & political expediency that drives the Democratic establishment

Conor Lynch Friday, Apr 22, 2016 9:59 AM UTC 0
News Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders

The simple reason why Hillary Clinton isn’t the future of the Democratic Party

A recent NYT piece argues that Clintonism will dominate Democratic politics going forward. It won't, and here's why

Conor Lynch Wednesday, Apr 20, 2016 1:48 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

The Democrats need to stop being the “lesser of two evils” party — starting now

The Clintons style of politics is losing sway, while Bernie represents a return to New Deal principles. It's time

Conor Lynch Monday, Apr 18, 2016 9:59 AM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

No, America isn’t insolvent: Inside the idiotic right-wing lie that hijacked Time magazine

The media loves to wax apocalyptic about government spending. We should know better by now

Conor Lynch Friday, Apr 15, 2016 8:30 PM UTC 0
News Economics, government spending

The GOP’s ludicrous Bernie smears aren’t just wrong — they’re intellectually bankrupt

As Americans become less and less scared of words like "socialism," conservatives look more and more ridiculous

Conor Lynch Wednesday, Apr 13, 2016 7:50 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

Bernie Sanders vs. the plutocracy: Why General Electric’s CEO is lashing out at the democratic socialist

Sanders has taken GE to task for its anti-middle class machinations. His message is too important to ignore

Conor Lynch Tuesday, Apr 12, 2016 4:03 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders

This is why people don’t trust Hillary: How a convenient reversal on gun control highlights her opportunism

Clinton's campaign recently hit Bernie on the one issue where she resides to his left: Guns. But she didn't always

Conor Lynch Monday, Apr 11, 2016 9:57 AM UTC 0
News Dem primary, Elections 2016

Bernie is crashing the American party system. That’s why establishment Democrats are so afraid of him

For most of its history, this country has been dominated by two parties, by design. Bernie actively defies all that

Conor Lynch Friday, Apr 8, 2016 9:56 AM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

The bad religion of Republican plutocrats: We can’t afford to overlook the danger of their ideas

Much ink has been spilled on the violent orthodoxy of GOP social and foreign policy. But don't forget the economy

Conor Lynch Thursday, Apr 7, 2016 11:57 AM UTC 0
News Donald Trump, Elections 2016

Hillary is sick of the left: Why Bernie’s persistence is a powerful reminder of Clinton’s troubling centrism

Bernie Sanders has stuck around longer than anyone could have imagined, and it's revealing Clinton's true colors

Conor Lynch Monday, Apr 4, 2016 4:44 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

Donald Trump is the pinnacle of American stupidity: Why his campaign consummates decades of rising anti-intellectualism

It's not that we've never seen anyone like Trump before. He's just finishing the job begun by Reagan, Bush & Palin

Conor Lynch Sunday, Apr 3, 2016 6:00 PM UTC 0
News Donald Trump, Editor's Picks

Hillary Clinton’s “tone”-gate disaster: Why her campaign’s condescending Bernie dismissal should concern Democrats everywhere

If the Clinton campaign can't deal with Bernie's "tone," how are they supposed to handle someone like Donald Trump?

Conor Lynch Wednesday, Mar 30, 2016 3:15 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

Stop trying to make Bernie disappear: While the establishment pretends nothing has changed, Sanders continues to win big

Winning the nomination could be challenging at this point, but Sanders's ideas have staying power even beyond 2016

Conor Lynch Monday, Mar 28, 2016 9:41 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

It wasn’t “politically correct” when W. said it: Why Trump’s Islamophobia is a dangerous American bellwether

The right has called Obama weak for preaching tolerance toward Muslims. What about when Bush did the same?

Conor Lynch Saturday, Mar 26, 2016 3:59 PM UTC 0
News Barack Obama, Brussels attacks

The most dangerous thing about Donald Trump: The disturbing movement he’s leading won’t just disappear if he loses

People are rightly scared by the prospect of Trump in the White House. But even if he loses, the crisis remains

Conor Lynch Thursday, Mar 24, 2016 11:58 AM UTC 0
News Donald Trump, Elections 2016

Bernie’s revolution could still disappear: Why a more progressive America is by no means guaranteed

There's a pervasive sense on the left that, win or lose this year, America's getting more liberal. Don't be so sure

Conor Lynch Monday, Mar 21, 2016 6:04 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

America’s broken healthcare has fallen off the radar. Here’s why we can’t afford to let that happen

After several months where Martin Shkreli and healthcare reform were hot topics, the issue has receded from view

Conor Lynch Monday, Mar 21, 2016 9:56 AM UTC 0
News Health Care, martin shkreli

The agony & the ecstasy of Donald Trump: America is at a crossroads — and his is the path to hell

The historical parallels that Trump is drawing are apt, and point to the significance of this moment in time

Conor Lynch Wednesday, Mar 16, 2016 11:58 AM UTC 0
News Donald Trump, Editor's Picks

The GOP’s “Mussolini” moment: Win or lose, Donald Trump could usher in a new era of authoritarian politics

On Monday, a Republican lawmaker compared Trump to the Italian fascist. And, in fact, the parallels are stark

Conor Lynch Thursday, Mar 10, 2016 12:59 PM UTC 0
News Donald Trump, Elections 2016

The Republican Party burned itself: How years of racist demagoguing paved the way for this terrifying moment

Donald Trump didn't create the poisoning atmosphere. He's just taking advantage of it.

Conor Lynch Monday, Mar 7, 2016 12:58 PM UTC 0
News Donald Trump, Elections 2016

Donald Trump could get the nuclear codes: How anti-intellectualism is killing American democracy

Only in a country where inequality is skyrocketing and corporate media runs amok could this happen

Conor Lynch Monday, Feb 29, 2016 10:58 AM UTC 0
News Donald Trump, Elections 2016

Charles Koch’s deceptive Sanders ploy: How the right-wing oligarch cloaks his dangerous agenda

The billionaire recently penned an article in the Washington Post voicing "agreement" with Sanders. Don't buy it

Conor Lynch Tuesday, Feb 23, 2016 1:00 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders

The GOP’s dangerous, contradictory braintrust: How Scalia led the way on political hypocrisy

Scalia's selective devotion to Constitutional originalism was ingenious, disingenuous and very bad for America

Conor Lynch Thursday, Feb 18, 2016 12:57 PM UTC 0
News Antonin Scalia, aol_on

Hillary Clinton brought this on herself: How a Democratic primary coronation turned into a war

Bernie Sanders has captured the imaginations of American progressives. He's also had some help

Conor Lynch Monday, Feb 15, 2016 10:59 AM UTC 0
Elections Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

Is Bernie Sanders doomed to the same fate as Ron Paul?

The two candidates share some electoral similarities. But there are reasons to feel better about Bernie

Conor Lynch Sunday, Feb 14, 2016 4:59 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Dem primary

These guys are killing conservatism: How Trump & Cruz are accelerating the intellectual debasement of the right

The conservative movement has been in decline for some time now, but the GOP front-runners are making it worse

Conor Lynch Sunday, Feb 7, 2016 11:00 AM UTC 0
News Conservatism, Donald Trump

What Paul Krugman gets wrong about Bernie Sanders

The NYT columnist has criticized Sanders for what he views as an overly idealistic politics. He misses the point

Conor Lynch Thursday, Jan 28, 2016 3:28 PM UTC 0
News Bernie Sanders, Elections 2016

Bernie Sanders could be the next Ronald Reagan

Believe it or not, the democratic socialist from Vermont could be a game-changer for American politics

Conor Lynch Monday, Jan 25, 2016 5:50 PM UTC 0
News aol_on, Bernie Sanders

This is how Hillary Clinton loses: How a market slowdown could become a recession — and put Donald Trump in the White House

Economists remain divided on whether current market turbulence could get worse. If it does, brace yourselves...

Conor Lynch Friday, Jan 22, 2016 10:58 AM UTC 0
All Salon Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump

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