(11 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 21, 2020
"Vote Biden, Fight Him Later" Isn't Enough Voting for Biden and challenging him after he's elected aren't enough. We need to enact Ranked-Choice Voting... and stop letting Democrats take our votes for granted.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 4, 2019
Forget Red vs. Blue: The Paradigm for the 21st Century is Orange, Purple, and Green Red versus Blue (Republican conservative right-wing versus Democrat liberal left-wing) seemed to work for the last century, but it's not working for the mess we're in now. With a Field Guide for spotting Orange, Purple, and Green on the political landscape.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 19, 2016
About That Post-Bernie Movement The post-nomination Sanders movement will face its first test -- or opportunity -- in September. Will it demand a place for the Green Party nominee in the fall presidential debates? Or will it look the other way while ideas they claim to support are silenced? The legacy of the Sanders campaign should be that its defeat killed illusions that we can ever expect a political revolution to come out of the Democratic Party.

(63 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Political Revolution and the Third-Party Imperative The Sanders campaign has raised hopes, but no real change is possible as long as the political landscape is limited to the two parties of war and Wall Street.

(14 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 16, 2015
After Bernie What will Bernie Sanders' supporters do when "We need a political revolution" inevitably turns into "We must vote for the lesser evil"?

(14 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 13, 2015
Hillary Won't Save Us, Neither Will Bernie or Liz Despite their obvious differences, the Democratic and Republican parties are both on the wrong side of this century's major crises. 21st-century time bombs like global warming require a drastic change in the U.S. political landscape.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Big Government for Dummies: Food-stamp cuts, bloated military budgets, and state-cartel capitalism It's hardly surprise that the "People's Budget" press conference in DC on Dec. 10 had no influence on the budget deal, America's latest lurch into austerity and corporate plutocracy.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 21, 2013
Obamacare and Other Republican Ideas Obamacare isn't a government takeover of health care, it's a financial-sector takeover of government. The current mood of frustration with the roll-out gives us a perfect opportunity to campaign for Single-Payer as the solution.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 19, 2013
The Tar Sands Pipeline and Independent Eco-Politics 350.org's Bill McKibben says we don't have time to challenge two-party rule and build a political alternative like the Green Party that takes the climate threat seriously. In reality, we don't have time not to.

(6 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 21, 2012
Open the Debates: Demand inclusion of Jill Stein and Gary Johnson! Occupy the debates: Challenge the Commission on Presidential Debates (and the media) to allow more than just two presidential candidates to participate.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 14, 2012
The Election-Year 'Free Market' Scam Bipartisan talk about the "The Market" too often masks a dangerous extremist ideology that says the chief purpose of government is to serve the demands of top corporations and help them consolidate power, at the expense of the rest of us.

(10 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Occupy Movement Must Also Become a Voters' Rebellion Democratic presidents and party leaders keep adopting more and more Republican agenda while Republican politicians sink deeper into extremism. The crisis won't be solved by intoning "We must vote to reelect Obama because Republicans will be worse" or by denial that voting can have any effect on the future.

(5 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 5, 2011
After the Wall Street Protests: How to change America's political direction It's time for a voters' revolt and a permanent noncorporate alternative to the Titanic Parties.

(14 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 19, 2011
Stop calling them conservative: The search for new language to describe today's political reality It's time to adopt a new model to replace the Republic/conservative/right vs. Democrat/liberal/left paradigm.

SHARE        Wednesday, April 6, 2011
The Global Green Imperative (Book Review) Review of 'The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics' by Derek Wall

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 20, 2010
Memo to Progressives: Green or the Graveyard Why progressive, antiwar, and eco voters must lead a popular revolt against two-party rule

(6 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 29, 2010
A Voters' Revolt Against Two-Party Rule: Ending the Stranglehold of the Titanic Parties There is no hope for real change as long as politics in America is stuck in the two-party groove. The only real democracy is multi-party democracy. What can we do to ignite a voters' revolt, in 2010 and beyond?

(7 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Some Modest Questions for the Tea Party, and for Democrats Too After the "Restoring Honor" Tea Party rally on Aug. 28: Is the political debate in America permanently limited to capitulating Democrats versus ever-more-extremist Republicans?

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 21, 2010
There's Nothing Natural, Democratic, or American about Two-party Rule Why Third Parties are essential -- and how the two Titanic Parties conspire to keep them off the ballot line.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 18, 2010
Democracy For Humans! Fighting corporate power in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling What all Americans should know about the Supreme Court's recent ruling on corporate money in politics, and what we can do about it.