Every week before we begin our podcast, we come up with a list of topics we want to cover. And the news hits us so fast that we keep forgetting things that were huge just a few days ago. So we began this week’s podcast with the Facebook data breach on tens of...
Over a week since the Democratic National Convention ended, I am still hearing ambivalence about it from friends who identify as progressive and left. Writer Maisha Z. Johnson posted on Facebook about her emotional whiplash during the DNC, which resonated so well that...
Now that the Democratic National Convention is over and Hillary Clinton has officially accepted the party’s nomination, millions of people are celebrating the historic event. But not everyone is #WithHer. There are millions more people who still #FeelTheBern and...
From the standpoint of news coverage, we Democrats have had a good couple of weeks. Senator Chris Murphy’s filibuster and the House sit-in led by Representative John Lewis have shined a spotlight on how beholden our Republican legislators are to the NRA. Donald...
I know I’m not the only one who has had to explain Donald Trump to children. Yes, it’s been an interesting year for politics, to say the least, and more and more my own kids want to talk about what they are seeing and hearing. My elder child explained to...
