Democrats are beginning to understand the power and extent of the right wing media bubble. For the past three election cycles, many of us have asked, "How could so many people have voted for someone like Trump?" More and more, we're realizing that the answer is not any particular issue or line of reasoning, not anything "deplorable" about the people themselves, but: "Because right wing media was their sole source of the news." … [more]
I know that many of you donate a lot of money to progressive causes and candidates, but I recently got an idea for another avenue for societal progress you might pursue. The idea is a general one about a kind of action you can take that combines business, philanthropy, and political activism, but in this post, I'll describe it in terms of a specific type of business.… [more]
We need a new progressive third party. It would be a kind of Bizarro progressive third party, in that it would almost always do the opposite from what current progressive parties like the Green Party are doing today.… [more]