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Activists Push DNC for a Cleaner, Fairer Party Platform

Sen. Sanders’ effect on the platform-drafting committee can be seen in the questions asked by many of the veteran activists serving on it.

A Democratic Platform Committee meeting in Washington made it clear that Sanders Progressive tenets will considerably influence the party’s future.

Return with us now to the saga of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the soul of the Democratic Party.

Andrew Sullivan recently wrote a piece that has aroused considerable comment, some of it reasonably on point, on Elites and Democracy.

The Democratic Party under the leadership of Debbie Wasserman Schultz was completely biased in the treatment of the Bernie Sanders campaign.

It’s like a weatherman missing a Category Five hurricane. Of course, if a weatherman had blown that call, he probably would be fired.

The decline in the level of discourse in this year’s election cycle has been a disgrace, with Democrats behaving better than Republicans.

Unless the working class reclaims its political authority, anyone who is not truly affluent will remain living on a precipice of economic insecurity.

Naomi Klein: I think that the climate movement has always been hurt by this perception that this is a luxury issue. Prescient.