“We have to make sure that money goes right back to people, to help with their heating and their cooling bills, or we’re never going to get it passed.”
Politics
THRIVING IN CHAOS: A DISORIENTED CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Klobuchar went on to tell the crowd that her campaign exceeded expectations: “I think the answer for all of this is that you want a president who has the presence of mind that can thrive in chaos.”
FROM SPECK TO SPECTACLE: A POLITICAL HISTORY IN THREE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARIES
A political history in three New Hampshire primaries
SOME QUICK WORDS BEFORE HEADING OFF TO COVER THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
The reporters I roll with may not dress like the coifs on TV, or have as many cool lanyards in their credential collection as those who ride campaign buses, but I assure you we are much more serious than most of them.
THERE IS NOTHING ‘VOLUNTARY’ ABOUT WORKING BAD JOBS
A brief defense of AOC’s critique of billionaires
IN DEFENSE OF TELLING FAMILY MEMBERS THAT THEY AREN’T QUALIFIED TO ARGUE WITH YOU ABOUT POLITICS
A few weeks ago, I went there. I told family members who reside politically south of America’s metaphorical Mason-Dixon line that they were unqualified to wrestle with me on the subject of impeachment.
THE CITIZENS AGENDA: WHAT DO YOU WANT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO TALK ABOUT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE?
Below you will find our developing reportorial agenda—the BINJ Citizens Agenda—curated using input from the public as well as media makers who are coming to report on the ground in New Hampshire
GRANITE GRIND: SUPERFICIAL RIFTS ASIDE, WARREN AND SANDERS HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT IDEAS & TACTICS
Less than a year out from the 2020 elections, and weeks away from the dawn of the Democratic Party primaries, the race for the presidential nomination has been whittled down to four “top tier” candidates and a swath of longshots desperate to make late breakthroughs.
REALITY CHECK
Massachusetts as a failed state, Boston as a failed city?
SINS OF OMISSION: MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA MUST END ITS ANTI-SOCIALIST BIAS
In the media organizations I help run, at least, we allow people with socialist positions a fair hearing. Understanding that socialism is supported by major political parties and movements the world over, has much to recommend it, and offers tried and true solutions to problems that capitalism can’t fix—because capitalism has caused most of the problems in question.