I just spent a lovely evening with fellow Bernie supporters at a book signing with Jonathan Tasini in San Francisco. If you’re interested, he’ll be at a repeat event in Oakland tonight. Jonathan’s book, The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America, provides excerpts from Bernie’s speeches, articles and interviews, organized by topic. It’s meant to […]
Sorry for the brief interruption yesterday, folks! Our countdown continues today as we look at family leave. The New Yorker calls it America’s disgrace. NPR has dived into the historical reasons for it. And the Atlantic snidely says, “good job America” for it (it’s easy to miss, but check out the URL). America is alone among developed countries in not […]
Today’s countdown comes from Alex Patel. _________ The first Democratic presidential debate is coming up in just over a week. Two of the biggest foreign policy issues at the moment are the Syrian Civil War and the Iran Nuclear Deal. While Hillary Clinton and many Republican candidates want to get more involved in Syria, Sanders […]
We’re getting closer to the debate! The last couple of weeks has given us the spectacle of insanely wealthy pharmaceutical CEOs pushing the outer limits of human decency, so today, let’s review what all the fuss is about. In what has become a trend, the drug company Turing Pharmaceuticals bought a drug and raised its price […]
One more day down to the debate! Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report. Today, we’re cutting up about Table A-15, Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization, a topic that doubtless fans the flames of your passion. But first, I want to talk potholes. The American Society of Civil Engineers says we have […]
I heard from Gretchen Pemberton, whom we can credit for our booth at Gay Pride in June. She writes from Sonoma County, about an hour north of here. I’m astonished, nearly appalled, at how busy they’ve been up there. I got tired just reading this. You can also check out photos from Sonoma County for […]
Welcome back to the great debate countdown! In honor of the weekend, brought to you by unions, we’ll be talking about the minimum wage. I’ve held my fair share of minimum wage jobs since I turned 12 and got the then-prevailing wage for children of small-town newspaper editors ($not getting yelled at per hour) to fold […]
Another day down to the first Democratic presidential primary debate. Today marks the 26th anniversary of the first law in the world to give civil union rights to gay couples (hint: it wasn’t in America), so I thought we should take this moment to reflect on Bernie’s record on gay rights. I’m sure most of […]
I got a note from Kirsten Schwind from Pacifica for Bernie: Hi Chris, I’m submitting pics and a report back from Pacifica for Bernie, that you can use for Twitter, Instagram, newsletter, etc. Fog Fest is the biggest community event of the year in Pacifica, with a large parade and street festival. My husband Mike and I organized […]
Fourteen days to go, team! We’re counting down to the first Democratic presidential primary debate, and since today is the deadline to close out contributions books for the FEC, I thought we could take a gander at Sanders’s take on campaign finance reform, and generally, how he’s doing in the money race. It’s been about […]