Staff / TruthdigNov 11, 2015
"If he doesn’t go electorally in a serious way to win, then [Bernie Sanders] is setting up millions of Americans, and young Americans, for a huge morale collapse," Nader explains. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigNov 19, 2012
The 25 alternative candidates elected to state legislatures in the 2012 election might not seem like a huge groundswell, but it represents the highest level of independent representation in statehouses since 1942. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 29, 2012
Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Women, war and support for alternative candidates could all decide the election, which remains extremely close. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Tracy Bloom / TruthdigOct 20, 2012
If you're not a Democrat or a Republican, the widely held belief goes, you have zero chance of winning an election. But there is one state where someone not affiliated with the two major parties has a good shot at winning a seat in the United States: Maine. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigSep 10, 2012
As Bill Moyers explores in the latest edition of his program, third parties have a place in the American political system, despite the fact that it's dominated by Democrats and Republicans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 31, 2011
Does America need a third political party? The backlash against Obama on the left and the tepid support for Romney (the "anyone but Romney” vote has gone from Bachmann to Perry to Cain to Gingrich) would seem to make this a fine time for an independent party to emerge. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Lawrence Weschler / TruthdigDec 10, 2011
What would it be like if activists were to spend the next several months developing, articulating and organizing toward a major national mortgage and student loan strike? Such a loan strike would be slated to begin on some specific preannounced date in the intermediate future. Why not, say, on Oct. 1, 2012, right in the middle of the next presidential campaign?Tyrannies all over the world exist in the ironclad certainty that people are nothing more than meat on sticks. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigNov 28, 2011
Some of my middle-of-the-road columnist friends keep ascribing our difficulties to structural problems in our politics. But the problem we face isn't about structures or the party system. It's about ideology. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 26, 2011
Does America need a third political party? The backlash against Obama on the left and the tepid support for Romney would seem to make this a fine time for an independent party to emerge. But it's also the year of $1 billion campaigns and Citizens United-style funding schemes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 1, 2010
David Letterman didn't exactly lob any hardballs in his interview with Idaho tea party activist Pam Stout on Tuesday night's show, opting instead to have a light and informative exchange on Stout's own history and where she believes the movement might be headed (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 22, 2010
Tea party loyalists may be situated at the right side of the political spectrum, but that doesn't mean the upstart political movement is an adjunct to the Republican Party, no siree. As it evolves, the loosely unified conservative coalition may be moving farther away from the GOP's orbit. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 5, 2010
What if they threw a tea party convention and Michele Bachmann didn't come? The first official such gathering of the right-wing "grass-roots" movement kicked off in Nashville on Thursday, and while it appears that the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota did pull out, Twitter-happy keynote (teanote?) speaker Sarah Palin was still very much on the books for her big moment Saturday. (continued) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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