So much for party unity. A tumultuous California Democratic convention over the weekend highlighted the still-remaining (and perhaps widening) gap between the party left- and centrist-leaning wings. (You already know which side ThePopulist.Buzz is on.) RoseAnn DeMoro, head of the California Nurses Association, laid down the marker: “We’re not going to unify around the status… Read More »

On May 16, amidst the backdrop of the turmoil in the White House, the Center for American Progress held its 2017 “Ideas Conference” before some 500 Democratic politicos, prominently including CAP’s financial supporters, in Washington. The upshot: there remains a chasm between the robust program essential to building a progressive majority — job creation, public… Read More »

Never has it been clearer that the establishment Democrats just don’t like Bernie Sanders, and that they’d like him to go away. Ask any of the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who’ve taken to the streets since Donald Trump figuratively hoisted his gold-plated name above the White House, and they’re likely to tell… Read More »

It figures that if you’re “part of the resistance,” the first thing you’d do is to go visit a billionaire in his palatial Los Angeles home, right? And that if you had to pick one billionaire, you’d choose the one who’s best known for dragging the Democratic Party into the militantly pro-Israel, anti-Palestine camp and… Read More »

A little over a week from now, Iranians go to the polls to elect a president. And while it hasn’t gotten the attention, say, that France’s election has received, it’s a significant vote. Either President Hassan Rouhani, the moderate who signed the nuclear accord with the United States and other world powers two years ago,… Read More »

There’s a lot of energy in the streets, if you go by the turnout for a series of marches this month: Tax Day April 15, the marches for science on April 22, and the climate change demonstrations on April 29. Millions have shown up, and many thousands used the latest Congressional recess to protest at… Read More »

Last month, in a piece for ThePopulist.Buzz – which also ran in The Nation – we described former President Obama’s unseemly post-presidential money-grubbing. The piece, called “Barack Obama’s Wealthy Friends,” outlined a pattern of activity that, even when seen most sympathetically, put Obama squarely in Hillary Clinton/Goldman Sachs territory. That pattern includes a $65 million… Read More »

Well, middle-of-the-road, squishy Democrats: if you don’t like Bernie Sanders-style democratic socialism and hard-core progressive politics, just say so. Don’t make it about the Democratic candidate for mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. Mayor of Omaha? Whaaaat? That candidate, Heath Mello, is a progressive Democrat backed by Bernie Sanders, and endorsed by Our Revolution, who’s got a… Read More »